Urban riverbank project receives CEES 2002 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence

Changing the look of the White River’s banks has earned the IUPUI-based Center for Earth and Environmental Science (CEES) a 2002 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence, honoring the CEES-led Lilly ARBOR project.

The awards ceremony was held Sept. 27 at the Indiana Government Center South auditorium. CEES director Lenore Tedesco received the award for the center, along with a representative from Eli Lilly and Company, the primary sponsor of the project.

“We are very proud of our accomplishment and believe it reflects well on CEES’ core programs and on the university as a whole,” said Tedesco, a member of the School of Science faculty.

The Lilly ARBOR Project is an outdoor experiential environmental education and research site that will help complete a conservation corridor through Marion County. Hundreds of students and faculty from such schools as Science, Liberal Arts, Public and Env ironmental Affairs, and Education will be involved in the five-year effort.

The project involves planting and monitoring the growth and development of trees and shrubs along 8.5 acres of the riparian corridor along the White River immediately west of the IUPUI campus.

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