EARTH News

Two teams of EARTH University students were named winners of the Resolution Social Venture Challenge. The annual multi-step competition – sponsored by The Resolution Project and Mastercard Foundation – encourages students to design social- and environmental-impact projects. In total, 33 projects from around the globe were recognized in the final round. EARTH’s entries Focused on […]

Fruit waste, it’s a rampant problem. Yet, a group of EARTH University students sees it as an incredible entrepreneurial opportunity. Recognizing the potential to extend the usable lifespan of diverse fruits via dehydration, the Class of 2020’s Melanie Pérez Vargas (Costa Rica), Natacha Rivera Aguirre (Ecuador), Janeth Ñauñay Ainaguano (Ecuador), Berson Valcin (Haiti) and Dennis […]

The drive to address world hunger led two EARTH University students to Rio de Janeiro. From July 22 to 29, Marc Roldy (’18, Haiti) and Norman Mugisha (’18, Rwanda) participated in the Thought for Food Summit, a yearly gathering of thought leaders committed to transforming global food systems. The TFF Challenge, an annual fixture of […]

August, 2018 (LIBERIA, Costa Rica) — Young Costa Ricans have a new space in which to discover how to generate fresh ideas for promoting sustainable development. The Science Corner at EARTH University’s La Flor campus in Guanacaste recently installed a handful of interactive modules – thanks to designs and implementation by EARTH students. The hands-on […]

Five students from Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas of El Salvador won an internship at EARTH University. Adriana García, Alberto Rivera, Melissa Ruíz, Daysi Calderón and Fabiola Ventura got together two years ago to participate in a project called Regional Integration, University and Sustainable Development in Central America (known as IRUDESCA in the Spanish-speaking world). […]