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Salem State biology students' gift to Earth Danielle Gabor and Meghan Macchi hang clothes in their dorm room instead of using the dryer, avoiding the emission of 27.4 pounds of carbon dioxide.

Salem State biology students' gift to Earth

From parties to shopping, the holidays tend to be a season of consumption for most Americans. Students in one Salem State University class, however, has pledged to give the planet a present by cutting their carbon dioxide emissions by 50,000 pounds before Christmas. Boston Globe, 12/8/11
Photos by David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
Ronald Garan Jr., via video link from the International Space Station, spoke to Adam Leith (left) from Salem Cyberspace and other middle schoolers battling in the robotics competition at MIT.

Unearthly duels aim to illustrate school’s cool

To the untrained eye, it looked like the roughly 80 middle school students gathered in an MIT lecture hall last Tuesday morning were randomly cheering while footage of an astronaut floating in space with little round robots played on a projector overhead. Boston Globe, 8/20/11
For her, leadership based in understanding

For her, leadership based in understanding

As students arrived on campus at Salem State University one day last October, Jessica Cousins, 23, set up a different kind of lesson for her peers: a simulator in the Commons Dining Hall on the distractions of texting and driving. Boston Globe, 5/21/11