Recent Grant Awards
Total amount awarded to students as of January 1, 2020: $402,241
Fall 2019 awardees
Aida Amirul: Compostable Single-Use Dining Plates Alternative for Weekly Alternative Student Luncheon
Neha Sawant and Cornellius Marcello: Modified Crab Shell Bioabsorbent for Heavy Metal Remediation of Drinking Water
Brandilyn Wilson: Planting Trees to Promote Environmental Sustainability and Cultural Prosperity
Alyse Lange and Emma Tervonen: Products for Menstrual Sustainability
Johnny Anderson III and Anjeliaca Rhan: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Regalia Sustainability Initiative
Fayza Khandoker and Emily Sue Nottingham: Reprocessing of Plastic Film
Sarina Routowicz and Jacob Lockwood: Sustainability Through Digitalization at the Student Recreation Center
Aurora Mokris: Evaluating Microbial Communities
Spring 2019 Awardees
Sage Cambell and Chantel Oahwere: Sunbolt Campus XL Solar Charging Bench: Advancing and Studying Sustainability at WMU
Rhonda Cosby and Noah Boot: Sustainable Mowing
Tanai Dawson and Ben Pikaart: Covered Bike Shelter
Mary Clare Griffith and Jonathon Eiseman: Bird Friendly Window Design
Andrew McCabe: Living Woodshop Courses
Bradilyn Wilson: Promoting Sustainability Through Tree Planting on East Campus
fall 2018 awardees
Marshall Kim and Maria Carson: Sustaining Natural Ecosystems: A WMU Service-Learning Project Abroad
Kyle Lyman and Andrew McCabe: Solar Cells and Batteries for Sunseeker
Saleh Mohamed and Stephen Siitari: Engineers Without Borders Sustainability Water Project
Margaret Scannell and Ariel Butler: Leaders Unplugged Equipment
Jared Wendland and Aaron Herbert: Alternative Energy Powerbank
Kyle Knaub and Taylor Berry: Growing for Good
Spring 2018 awardees
Margreth Haji and Alezis Blakley: Engineers without Borders Sustainable Water Project
Daniel Mozel and Jill Puckett: WMU Makerspace PLA Recycler
Dustin Black and Sean Harrigan: Adding Waste Powder Paint to Cement Mixtures
Nicholas Talamentez and Victoria Morse: Leaders Unplugged Supplies
Sudharsan Sridhar and Suraj Sundaram: Fuel Cell Stack and Catalyst Purchase
Cameron Segard and Heather Irish: Sustainable Aircraft Research to Enable Implementation
Megan Van Aartsen and Clare Jaquish: Attaining Cradle-to-Cradle Practices by Upgrading Plastic Sheet Extrusion Equipment
FALL 2017 AWARDEES
Jessica Graves and Turner Slaughter: Engineers without Borders Sustainable Water Project
Rachel Holbert and Cheruba Daniel: Costa Rica: The Great Green Experiment
Hailey Olson and Shannon Ervin: Students for a Sustainable Earth- Conservation
Logan Ryzenga and Riley Todd: Take the Stairs
Albert Wright and Jumana Turkistani: Solid State Light Conversion
SPRING 2017 AWARDEES
Rojeliio Batas and Austin Seavolt: Hydration for Health and the Environment
Bo Ching Wong and Krystal York: Sunseeker Solar Cells and Trailer Purchase
Bradley Rangel and Siobhan Williams: Hydration Station for Trimpe
Fall 2016 AWARDEES
- Luis Morales and Andrew Klug: Alternative Transportation: Hydraulic-Electronic Bicycle
- Brianna Brown and Amber Hojnacki: Permaculture from Mesoamerica to Kalamazoo
Spring 2016 AWARDEES
- Jill Puckett and Shannon Bajo: Hydration Station
- Janet Aladetohun and Elivira Ubaldo Ace Ruiz: Peace Week: Hullabazoo and Hooping for Self-Care
- Morgan MacFarlane and Annalisa Wilder: A Proposal to Add More Trees to the Goldsworth Valley Pond Area
- Cameron Wolbrink: T-Shirt Swap
- Ben Giese: Student Wildlife Survey
FALL 2015 AWARDEES
- Christine Uggeri: The WeGrow to Give Community Project: at the Community Garden
- Casey Wright and Lainey Barber: Green Chemistry as a Sustainable Approach to the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory
- Gregory Johnson and David Sellers: Sustainable Light Activated Catalysts
- Anja Grommons and Lauren Rabish: Locally Sweet Treats
- Annalisa Wilder and Chiante Lymon: A Proposal to Hold a Bike Safety Day on Campus
- Erika Fojtik and Kelsey Pitschel: Sustainable Bicycle Generator
Spring 2015 Awardees
- Nora Gimpel and Taylor Sawyer: Sustainable Student Cafe
- Bryan Harris and Cameron Knight: Sunseeker Solar Array Encapsulation Project
- Krysta Coleman and Jesus Romero: Carbon Neutral USB Drives -- RSO Orientation
- Courtney Cox: Western Student Association T-Shirt Swap Grant Proposal
Fall 2014 Awardees
- Kate Binder: Energy Reduction with the We-Mo Switch
- Ali Leist and Shaana Way: 2015 North American National Bee Conference
- Candace Fastenhammer and Jesus Romero: Leaders Unplugged Backpacking Equipment
- Kelsey Pitschel and Eli Lowry: Compost Hot Water Heater Workshop and Installation
- Cody Potter and Thinh Nguyen: LED Research Station
- Andrew Brower and Quincy Campbell: Ultros 3D Printer and Recycled Filament Extruder
- Carlos Daniels and Kyle Simpson: Integrated Aquaculture Feed
- Courtney Gullett and Julee Reed: Michigan Mi-Plate
- Zachary Morhous and Johan Mejia: Sustainable Shade Structures as part of the Fountain Plaza Remodel
- Karen Haubert and Robert Galman: Solar Car Energy Storage Optimization