Isabell Wideman: Take back the night by turning off lights

“Why not?” I thought when I signed up for the first class in dark sky studies at the University of Utah. As a civil and environmental engineering major, I wanted something to set me apart on my resume, but I was not expecting to find a field that I would be so passionate about.I’m from Missouri and, typically, people there don’t really know or care about sustainability. Growing up near St. Louis, I hardly gave the stars a second thought. It never crossed my mind that an e