Award Ceremony Caps Day Four of Earth Week

Four diverse events fill the Day Four schedule. The sessions address trees, to art made from trash, to a celebration of student scholarship and our 2025 Friend of the Earth, the MGH Institute of Health Professions and its Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health.

Arbor Day Celebration, 11:00 am-12 pm, In front of Sullivan Building along Lafayette Street. Join SSU College of Arts and Sciences Brian Vanden Heuvel, Department of Conservation and Recreation arborists, and others to plant a Tulip Tree and learn about the benefits of trees.

• Sponsored by the SSU Sustainability Council students

Branching Out with Sustainability Council Interns, 12:15-1:15 pm, Ellison Campus Center, Martin Luther King, Jr. room.  Sustainability Council students will provide an update on recent campus tree planting and tree certification initiatives.

Trash Transformed: A Binational Perspective on Art and Sustainability, Ellison Campus Center Winfisky Gallery

• Artist Talk: 12:30 pm
• Reception: 1:30-3:00 pm

The "Trash to Art" initiative, a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project between Salem State University in the United States and Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico, exemplifies the transformative power of global shared learning. Guided by Professors Tereza Swanda and Francisco González Romo de Vivar, this project engages students from diverse cultural backgrounds in repurposing discarded materials into meaningful artworks, promoting a profound understanding of environmental sustainability and cross-cultural collaboration.

Earth Days Award Ceremony, 5-6:30 pm, Charlotte Forten Hall Room 123

The ceremony will honor the MGH Institute of Health Professions and its Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health, a unique nursing-driven initiative focused on the health consequences of climate change, with a Friend of the Earth award. Suellen Breakey ’86, director of the center, will accept the award and deliver brief remarks. Student research poster contest, art contest, and creative writing contest winners will receive awards and winners of the writing contest will read their winning entries. Food will be provided.

All events are free and open to the public. The full Earth Days schedule is available at salemstate.edu/earthday.