Hanley Sustainability Institute
Dayton Regional Green invites interested parties to attend a Zoom Hot Topics and Coffee event from 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 21. The topics are “So. What is the Green New Deal?” and “Why Is the Dayton Arcade ‘The Most Transformative Project in America?’” Registration is free.
Thanks to aggressive retrocommissioning of buildings across campus and other energy initiatives, the University of Dayton’s Facilities Management team is saving about $1 million annually. Matthew Worsham, UD’s energy efficiency and renewable energy manager, credits hard work from facilities management staff, students and UD’s partners in the energy industry.
The Hanley Sustainability Institute at the University of Dayton is expanding its reach in an effort to bring high-achieving graduate students to UD to work in sustainability-related research. HSI has launched a graduate fellowship program for the 2021-2022 academic year to attract high-quality students with sustainability interests to UD through an internationally-advertised fellowship competition.
University of Dayton graduate Emily Sandstrom has joined The Climate Journal Project, an initiative to "help alleviate environmental anxiety and fears" through which participants are invited to empower themselves and others to transition away from planetary grief and climate change paralysis.
A University of Dayton research paper on the cost of carbon neutrality at the University earned an Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education 2020 Sustainability Research Award. Graduate assistant Ryan Shea was the lead author of the paper - “A life-cycle cost analysis of transitioning to a fully-electrified, renewably powered, and carbon-neutral campus at the University of Dayton,” - with co-authors Hanley Sustainability Institute Executive Director Ben McCall, UD energy efficiency and renewable energy manager Matthew Worsham, engineering professor Andrew Chiasson and former UD engineering professor Kelly Kissock.
A free, one-credit-hour minicourse on energy use in buildings is available for University of Dayton students in the spring 2021 semester. The Building Energy Education Program (BEEP) 8-week course will be from 8 to 10 p.m. Mondays Feb. 8 through March 29. Students wanting to register can search for UDI 261 on Banner, according to organizers.
Freshman Grace Hungerford said when she tells people she studies sustainability, they look at her like she’s a “genius” but the major is for anyone willing to learn. “Since the start of my college experience in August," she said. "I learned that UD’s sustainability program is about creativity and hard work rather than how booksmart you are and that is what I love about the program."
