EARTH News

This month marks 28 years of quality education and dream cultivation at EARTH University. To celebrate the Institution’s birthday, known as Hijos de la Tierra Day on campus, a collaborative-learning experience was held earlier this week. More than 800 student and staff attendees were shuffled into 31 groups, before being assigned a distinct campus department […]

Thanks to his graduation project, recent EARTH University grad Juan Bol (’17, Belize) will compete in the final round of the prestigious Alltech Young Scientist competition. He has the chance to win $5,000 plus a doctoral scholarship for his research evaluating immunity boosters in plants and control of nematodes in commercial banana plantations. The competition […]

EARTH University student Edison Doylet (’18, Ecuador) is one step closer to bringing his dream of a plastic-free world to life. As a winner of the Caribbean region’s qualifying round at the Seedstars Costa Rica by PROCOMER pitch competition, he earned $1,000 in seed funding to execute his project “An Ecological Alternative to the Use […]

Andrés Tolosa, 25, spent each morning digging his hangs into the dirt of EARTH University’s Integrated Organic Farm, putting his education into practice. The Colombian native studies environmental engineering at Universidad Libre, where he currently is putting the finishing touches on his graduation project. On life in Colombia: In addition to his studies, Andrés is […]

Seventeen students from Poás High School visited the Science Corner facilities and the Ad Astra Rocket Company’s labs at EARTH University’s La Flor campus. The trip was part of the U.S. governmental initiative TeachHer. Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solís, First Lady Mercedes Peñas, and U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica Sharon Day accompanied the students. […]