Students, faculty pursue sustainability projects after receiving SU grant
Avery Schildhaus | Contributing Photographer
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An annual Syracuse University research grant has allowed students and faculty members to pursue sustainability-related projects this year.
SU’s Campus as a Laboratory for Sustainability grant was established alongside SU’s Climate Action Plan. The plan, which the university introduced in 2009, aims to completely eliminate SU’s net emissions of greenhouse gases by the end of 2040.
The grant awards up to $75,000 per project and has provided funding for sustainability projects since 2016. Six projects received funding in April 2020. Several students and faculty who received the funding said that it helped make their projects possible over the past year.
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Russell Fearon ’20, G’21 (College of Engineering and Computer Science) and Ricardo Sanchez ’21 (College of Visual and Performing Arts) were the grand prize winners of Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars at SU Libraries’ 2021 Syracuse University’s campus qualifier for the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) InVenture Prize. The event was held virtually on January 29. They earned a $5,000 cash prize, sponsored by M&T Bank, and will now move on to participate virtually in a PBS-televised event in April. The ACC InVenture finals feature a $30,000 prize package and will be hosted virtually by North Carolina State University. Fearon and Sanchez’ invention, SugEx, is an innovative device and mobile app designed to better monitor glucose levels for people with pre-, Type 1, and Type 2 diabetes.