Students donned safety gear before touring a steel plant in Iowa as part of a spring-quarter environmental studies class

Midwest factory tour brings learning to life

Educators who encourage their students to get out of the classroom don't typically direct them to steel mills, glass factories, and soda-pop bottling plants. But that's exactly what environmental studies professor Daniel Press had in mind when he offered a new senior seminar this spring. [More]

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