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The River Warriors, a U of M student group, teamed up with community and campus volunteers
to spend their saturday collecting over 15,000 pounds of trash that had ended up on the shores
of McKellar Lake. It was 10 years ago Tuesday that the Fedex Institute of Technology opened
it doors, and that fact was celebrated by many of the students and researchers who have
made it a hub of innovation for the past decade. As part of America Recycles Week, volunteers
displayed what they had picked up on campus over the past week. This was the beginning
of the Million Pound Challenge, in which the university has set a goal of collecting a
million pounds of material to recycle by the end of June 2014. The Intermodal Freight Transportation
Institute hosted a delegation of Russian logistics professionals this week, and took them to
see the many of the intermodal facilities in Memphis. The U of M also signed a memorandum
of agreement with the volga state academy of water transport to hold educational, scientific
and cultural exchanges. And the Crews Center for Entrepreneurship opened its doors this
week. The center will be a place for the campus community to get help developing and commercializing
their ideas and innovations. For the U of M minute, I am John Miller, senior, film and
video major.