Student project

Do you know that there is a “Honey Team” at ICU that keeps bees? JICUF first encountered the ICU Beekeeping Project in the fall of 2019, when undergraduate student Yuki Tamaki applied for and successfully received a JICUF grant. In the application, she wrote: “We will set up beehives in the organic farm on campus and engage in beekeeping. We will use the funds obtained from the harvested honey to support activities aimed at saving bees from Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), an unexplained phenomenon of mass disappearance of bees. The project will create opportunities for ICU students to think about and act on environmental issues.” The grant was used to […]