Thousands of UVM students have participated in SCF-sponsored curricular and co-curricular activities, including lectures, classes, and seminars.
About one-third of SCF funds have been invested in campus-based academic and co-curricular activities. Examples include the Sustainable Transportation Education Initiative, Energy Action Seminar; the seminar series on climate change, food systems, and electric energy; onetime speakers; and sponsorship of the regional Power from the North 2015 conference.
Academic projects have been well received on campus and fill a need for additional classes and lectures on the subject of clean energy and the energy system transition. Attendance and student engagement have been high at all seminars and lecture series. Connecting speakers with students via classes has linked the academic side of the university with the SCF in a meaningful way.
The SCF has supported student involvement since its inception by funding internships and club-related activities that complement the academic curriculum and allow for more learning experiences.
| Proposal | Description | Proposed by | Award | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Closing the Loop on Lab Water Consumption Scalable Wastewater Filtration | Water filtration system that would allow the UVM Biofiber lab to reuse their wastewater. Engineering students will design and install the filtration system as a capstone project in coordination with students in the lab. | Steve Kostell | $16,500 | 2022 |
| Walk to Shop Cart Share Pilot | Pilot addition of rolling carts to the Davis Center and Residence Hall front desk loaning programs to help students carry items around and beyond campus without a car (ex: grocery shopping). | David Brantly | $3,240 | 2022 |
| Campus Salt Reduction Environmental Impact Monitoring and Mitigation Prototyping | Continuing the research and monitoring of water salinity being done by students involved and creating a prototype for a heated walkway as an alternative to salt usage. | UVM Salt Reduction Task Force | $35,570 | 2022 |
| Time for Net Zero Energy Buildings on UVM’s Campus | Internship to gather information on what RSENR has done to make Aiken and Bittersweet as energy efficient as possible, how past funding has contributed to this work, student opinions on the creation of Net Zero buildings, and the institutional/environmental necessity of creating NZE buildings on campus. | Student group led by Gary Hawley | $3,615 | 2022 |
| Switching Campus to Sustainable T-Shirt Purchasing | Internship designed to evaluate the current details of UVM's T-Shirt purchasing budget, plan, and related information and design a path forward to make more sustainable purchases for giveaways for students. | Marie Bouffard | $1,870 | 2021 |
| Adaptability Internship: On Campus garment Waste Mitigation | Internship focused on educating the student body about the environmental harm associated with fast fashion and on conducting research as to possible tracks to mitigate UVM's campus waste of garments. | Emma Wardell | $1,664 | 2021 |
| Zero Waste Video "Shorts" | Internship to generate short form content to spread information about and excitement for zero waste habits. | Corey Berman | $4,000 | 2021 |
| Campus Salt Reduction Pilot Studies | Involve student interns in monitoring water salinity throughout the year and investigate alternate methods of keeping walkways safe in winter without damaging ecosystems or infrastructure. | UVM Salt Reduction Task Force | $40,050 | 2021 |
| Carbon Offset Resource Internship: Phase II | Internship to promote the use of carbon offset options by UVM students | Isabel Coppola, Amy Seidl | $900 | 2020 |
| UVM Sustainability Information Accumulation Internship | Internship focused on centralizing sustainability data on the Office of Sustainability website | Cyrus Oswald, Isabel Coppola, Olivia Lopez | $3,960 | 2020 |
| Curating the Conversation on Clean Energy and Climate at UVM: A Digital Media Internship | Student produced podcast on clean energy and climate at UVM | Josie Friedman | $3,950 | 2019 |
| Carbon Offset Resource Internship | Will Corcoran | $1,650 | 2019 | |
| Clean Energy Storytelling & Data Collection | A project that worked to catalog the history of the Sustainable Campus Fund, then called the Clean Energy Fund. It resulted in the story map which you can see here. | Richard Watts, Sophie Smith | $11,160 | 2019 |
| Energy Action Seminar | Mark Usher | $30,000 | 2018 | |
| Waste to Clean Energy Lecture Series | Anju Krivov | $17,500 | 2018 | |
| Sustainable Transportation Education Initiative | Thomas Maron, Morgan Dreibelbis, Devin Spindel, Deirdre Gill | $3,000 | 2018 | |
| Spring Speaker Series | Jane Stromberg, Holly St. Jean | $1,0002 | 2017 | |
| Energy Action Seminar (2017-18) | Richard Watts | $23,700 | 2017 | |
| Headwaters Magazine | Dan Kopin | $2,000 | 2017 | |
| Power from the North Conference | Jennie Stephens, Richard Watts, David Massell | $5,500 | 2015 | |
| Student Energy Action Seminar Series | Richard Watts, Jane Kolodinsky | $15,171 | 2014 | |
| CEF Lecture Series: Campus Food & Energy Seminar Series | Doug Lantagne, Richard Watts, Amy Trubeck, Alison Nihart | $7,682 | 2014 | |
| Energy Action Seminar | Richard Watts, Stephanie Kaza | $14,631 | 2014 | |
| Smart Grid Seminar Series | Curtis Saunders | $4,172 | 2014 | |
| Anaerobic Digestion Guest Lecturer | Victor Izzo | $1,500 | 2014 | |
| Renewable Energy Network | Frederick Hall | $6,300 | 2014 | |
| Clean Energy Internship Program | Amy Siedl | $12,335 | 2014 | |
| Cow Power Research | Gioia Thompson | $8,260 | 2014 | |
| GreenSpeed4 | Jeff Frolik | $21,792 | 2014 | |
| "Vermont's Energy Future" Keynote Speaker, James Howard Kunstler | Richard Watts | $4,000 | 2013 | |
| Energy Action Seminar | Richard Watts, Joan White | $10,685 | 2013 | |
| CleanSpeed: A Student-Developed Zero-Emissions Vehicle | Jeff Frolik | $23,469 | 2012 | |
| Climate Action Seminar | Amy Siedl, Rachael Beddoe | $11,297 | 2012 | |
| Energy Auditing & Retrofitting Course | Gary Flomenhoft | $2,965 | 2010 | |
| Virtual Solar Carport Course | Richard Watts | $6,000 | 2010 |
