The 21st annual听听program recognizes outstanding individuals and departments demonstrating a sincere commitment to transforming the CU Boulder campus into a living laboratory for sustainability. Awardees exhibit innovation that directly reduces the university's ecological footprint, enhances social cohesion and equity in the campus community听and/or integrates sustainability into the culture of Boulder and our local communities.
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Dorothy Noble, our EVEN lab manager, accepted the听CU Green Labs Award听 on behalf our SEEL Environmental Engineering Labs. Our Labs听were nominated by Erin Printy, the SEEC Building Manager.听The听Environmental Engineering Laboratories located at SEEL are a shared laboratory that optimizes space and resources making the laboratory energy听efficient and reducing our impact on the environment.听 In recognition of our actions to promote sustainability in the science community, we were awarded the Green Labs Program Award for our efforts.
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Our EVEN alumni听Tyler Huggins and Justin听Whiteley, who听received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder, also got a听Special Recognitions听award for commercializing the technology they developed at CU that uses fungi to clean brewery wastewater and simultaneously produce high performance materials and protein.听CEO and Co-founder of Emergy Labs, Tyler Huggins, received his PhD in Environmental Engineering at CU Boulder where he studied wastewater treatment and successfully ran several cleantech startups. Tyler Huggins and Justin Whiteley听were selected as first cohort of the DOE national competition for their project on听Recycling and energy storage industries.