AASHE Announces Sustainability Award Winners

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Andrea Huggins
Marketing & Communications Coordinator
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
(888) 347-9997
andrea.huggins@aashe.org

• The Campus Sustainability Achievement Award that honors higher education institutions for successful implementation of projects that advance sustainability.
• The Student Sustainability Leadership Award that honors students and/or student teams from higher education who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in promoting sustainability on campus.
• The Campus Sustainability Research Award that recognizes published and unpublished research that contributes to the advancement of higher education sustainability.

• Cedar Valley College’s Quality Teaching in Practical Sustainability (Q-TIPS) programprovides sustainability training to help faculty members better prepare students for the ‘big questions’ of the 21st Century as they relate to real-world issues such as energy consumption, air and water quality, and climate change.
• Furman University’s Community Conservation Corps (CCC) program provides free home weatherization to low-income homeowners in the greater Greenville, South Carolina community. This program has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by more than 100 mTCO2e (metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent) in approximately 100 houses.
• University of Manitoba organized the BEE/HOUSE/LAB project, an international competition to design a bee house for fabrication and deployment that can house 80-100 solitary bees, a species under threat from loss of habitat. The university recently installed 50 of the winning house designs around the campus.

• Joanne Ma, Justin Cruz, Itay Porat, Lawrence Giannotti and Thanh Tran from the University of Houston won the undergraduate student research award for theirinvestigation into campus water conservation opportunities, which included an evaluation of the structure, costs and laws associated with the current on-campus water management system.
• Brittany Szczepanik, John Dooley, Whitney Johnson, Divyesh Kumar, Benjamin Kunstman and Kristin Steiner from the University of Michigan received the award for graduate student research based on their proposal, developed in partnership with Johnson Controls, Inc., for doubling energy efficiency at the University of Michigan by 2030.
• Tina Lynn Evans with Colorado Mountain College won the award for published research with a journal article about the process of activating hope and agency among undergraduate college students.