Written by: Amber Greaney, O’Neill alumna and associate faculty member Imagine going about your life when suddenly a 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes. Your school is destroyed, social upheaval ensues, and landslides leave your village isolated from the rest of the country. The energy infrastructure is down, and it could take more than a decade to… Read more »
Sustainable Management and Policy
Truman Angell: 2024 Chancellor’s Scholar, Outstanding Public Affairs Student
Truman Angell was in the middle of working a lunch shift when he got the call. “The dishwasher was going in the back, the dishes were clanking, it was kind of funny,” Angell recalls with a laugh. He struggled to hear the person on the other end of the phone. It was O’Neill Indianapolis Executive… Read more »
Ainsley Wright: Top 100 of 2024
Ainsley Wright started out studying environmental science at IUPUI. But it only took her first sustainability class for her to realize she needed to make a change. She soon transferred to the O’Neill School and changed her major to Environmental Policy and Sustainability. “The O’Neill School allowed me to study the interactions between humans and… Read more »
Lance Varnell: Top 100 of 2024
Lance Varnell is no stranger to taking on a challenge. His dedicated work ethic has been evident from the moment he arrived at O’Neill in 2022, a transfer student who first completed his associate’s degree at Ivy Tech. It wasn’t long after arriving that another opportunity within O’Neill caught the Sustainability Practice and Policy major’s… Read more »
O’Neill to bridge sustainability skills gap with Greenhouse Gas Accounting course
The O’Neill School in Indianapolis is preparing to offer a new course aimed at helping sustainability students and professionals alike. Greenhouse Gas Accounting will focus on teaching students how to help organizations measure their emissions impact and create a plan to address it. IU’s Associate Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer Jessica Davis works as… Read more »