<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2021/compositing-for-crayfish.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>10/06/2021</pubDate><title>University’s Composting Efforts Yield Food for Research Animals</title><description>As part of its many green initiatives, the University is committed to composting, and it is now using food scraps to feed crayfish that are used in research.</description><hide-description/><author>Laura Miller, director of energy and sustainability</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>October 6, 2021</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/news/non-college-specific/blog/2021/composting-sophia-gambale.png" alt="Sophia Gambale giving tour of the Center for Wildlife Forensic Research."/></image><image-caption>Sophia Gambale ’22 gives a tour of the Center for Wildlife Forensic Research and discusses crayfish with visiting students.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>sustainability</tag><tag>year-2021</tag></tags></item>