The following project highlight the goals of this year's fellows. For more information and contact information on these projects and more, search the Fellowships database by campus or project topic.

Andrea Triplitt
Furman University
The Green Room Energy and Environmental Initiative (GREEN) Showcase Room will serve as a residence hall model for students on campus to learn how simple lifestyle and product choices in their dorm rooms can significantly lessen their carbon footprint.

Christa Jordan
Clemson University
Christa is collaborating with a local non-profit, Friends of Lake Keowee, to construct green roofs both on campus and in the larger community.

Kate Ekman
Northeastern Illinois University
The purpose of the project is to assist Northeastern Illinois University in understanding and quantifying its environmental impact while focusing on steps to reduce it. Kate will conduce a greenhouse gas inventory using the Clean Air Cool Planet program, which will create measured benchmarks for the future.

Axel Ramirez-Madera
University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez
Axel's ambitious project is supporting seven fundamental "Green Resolutions" on campus, including: transportation, recycling, energy conservation and efficiency, habitat, purchasing, education and outreach and water conservation.

Hal Knowles
University of Florida
This “Core Project” entails the first year activities associated with designing and implementing the UF Carbon Neutral Action Plan. Specifically, the fellowship will support Hal’s role as a coordinator for this cross-campus interdepartmental endeavor.

Nirav Patel
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Nirav is going to be working to implement Maximum Power Point Tracking technique in various ways on his campus. This technique aims to locate the global maximum power point on the P-I curve of the interconnected arrays to extract the maximum power from the PV arrays thus bypassing any local maximum that might trap other single stage MPPT technique.

Campus Ecology...It takes a big step to make a smaller footprint.