The 21st annual Campus Sustainability Awards 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 and/or integrates sustainability into the culture of Boulder and our local communities.
Dorothy Noble, our EVEN lab manager, accepted the CU Green Labs Award on behalf our SEEL Environmental Engineering Labs. Our Labs were nominated by Erin Printy, the SEEC Building Manager. The Environmental Engineering Laboratories located at SEEL are a shared laboratory that optimizes space and resources making the laboratory energy efficient and reducing our impact on the environment. In recognition of our actions to promote sustainability in the science community, we were awarded the Green Labs Program Award for our efforts.
Our EVEN alumni Tyler Huggins and Justin Whiteley, who received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder, also got a Special Recognitions award for commercializing the technology they developed at CU that uses fungi to clean brewery wastewater and simultaneously produce high performance materials and protein. 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 were selected as first cohort of the DOE national competition for their project on Recycling and energy storage industries.