BTN.com LiveBIG Staff, January 4, 2016
[btn-post-package]When we say the students, faculty and staff, and alumni of the universities of the Big Ten Conference "live big," we aren?t overstating our case. Last year, we reported stories that took our readers from exotic locales like Sri Lanka and Uganda to galaxies far, far away. Whether it?s on-campus or in outer space, the Big Ten community is innovating, inspiring and improving.
We told more than 200 of those stories in 2015. We loved them all, but there were a few that stood out to us as especially interesting and high-impact. Here are some of our favorites from the universities in the East Division of the conference:
INDIANA
Carrying the torch for Hoosier musical heritage
Indiana lecturer gives kids everywhere a place to play
MARYLAND
Maryland professor, students start movement to free imprisoned journalists worldwide
Maryland's Terp Farm fills minds and bellies with good stuff
MICHIGAN
Michigan graduates find fertile soil for urban farming in Detroit
Wolverines team up to support fellow student-athletes' mental health
MICHIGAN STATE
How Spartan football greats made history
Michigan State doc clocks hard-hitting disease with haymaker
OHIO STATE
Ohio State student does it all, and then some
Ohio State students steering auto innovation
PENN STATE
Penn State alum Steve Garguilo?s excellent adventures
Penn State's Morningstar Home brightens future of sustainability
RUTGERS
Rutgers grad a 'Major' success in politics, dentistry in his native Bahamas
Rutgers' ocean gliders scan the Seven Seas
Check back in with us on Thursday to see LiveBIG's "Best of the West" in 2015.
