CU Green Labs Awards Program

The CU Green Labs Program recognizes CU Boulder members (students, staff and faculty), individual labs, campus groups and departments for their remarkable actions and commitments.

  • Avoid or reduce the environmental footprint of scientific research.
  • Advance resource efficiency and sustainability practices in laboratory research.
  • Strengthen the culture of sustainability in the science community.
  • Actively engage in cultural movements and practices that dismantle systems of oppression affecting historically excluded peoples in the science research field.
  • Address injustices connected to scientific research, such as hazardous materials exposure and unjust labor conditions in lab product manufacturing.

Call for Nominations

The CU Green Labs Awards will be presented for the eleventh year at the 2025 Campus Sustainability Summit in April.

CU Green Labs Award recipients' actions align with CU Boulder’s sustainability goals and advance a sustainability culture in the science community. 

Nominations are open to members of the CU Boulder campus and will be evaluated based on the following:

  • Overall beneficial impact and long-term impact.
  • How the effort set an example for others.
  • How the effort goes above and beyond expected job duties and what is expected by campus or in a typical research environment.

Nominations must be received by March 10, 2025.

CU Green Labs Program Award Nomination Form 

Past CU Green Labs Program Awards