Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • ’Cuse Conversations Podcast
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Campus & Community
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • University Statements
  • Syracuse University Impact
  • |
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
Sections
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • University Statements
  • Syracuse University Impact
  • |
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • ’Cuse Conversations Podcast
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Campus & Community

Applications Being Accepted for Campus as a Laboratory for Sustainability Funding

Friday, November 1, 2019, By News Staff
Share
sustainabilitySustainability Management

CALS logoThe Campus as a Laboratory for Sustainability (CALS) program is offering up to $75,000 for faculty or student projects that advance Syracuse University’s goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, directly or indirectly, or through raising awareness on campus about climate disruption and environmental sustainability. Funds will become available May 16, 2020. University faculty and students from any discipline may apply.

Last April, four projects were awarded funding:

  • “Bee Orange, Honey Bee project” by Lisa Olson-Gugerty: $9,988.94
  • “Does the School of Design Care About Environment?” by Louise Manfredi: $17,670
  • “Revised Integrated Anaerobic Digester and Fuel Cell Power System” by Jeongmin Ahn: $18,240
  • “Developing Hands-On Course Components on Smart Storm Water Management Strategies” by Baris Salman: $10,000

The next round of funding is available for projects undertaken between May 16, 2020, and June 30, 2021. All proposals must clearly address how the projects relates to climate disruption and all must include outreach or educational activities that promote awareness of sustainability issues on the Syracuse University campus. Projects may include faculty or student research, applied research, campus infrastructure or landscape projects, outreach campaigns, service projects or course development.

The School Of Design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts submitted its first application for “Does the School of Design Care About Environment?” Project manager Louise Manfredi and project partner Seyeon Lee stated: “The School of Design is a miniature community, which can be an ideal platform for students to exercise and experience sustainability knowledge, which they learn in the classroom. This grant allows us to intentionally create a learning environment that enforces our students to engage in reuse, reduce, and recycle practices of waste they produce in studios. This opportunity would significantly benefit our programs in shaping our students into environmentally responsible designers as well as developing lifelong skills that respect our planet’s resources and further bringing greater impacts to our communities.”

The Syracuse University Climate Action Plan, which was released in 2009, is providing the competitive funding as part of the CALS program, overseen by a team of faculty and staff from across the University. The program merges academic scholarship with the University’s broad initiative to meet energy efficiency goals, while having faculty and students use the campus as a test bed for innovative ideas.

Baris Salman, professor of practice of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, stated about his grant: “Recent developments in wireless sensor technologies, data analytics tools and cloud computing have reached to a point where deployment of these transformative technologies for real-time infrastructure monitoring, management and smart decision making is more easily achievable. The main goal of this project is to develop hands-on course components on Smart Stormwater Management to enhance our students’ exposure to these critical advancements. We anticipate that this project will bring significant returns in terms of raising the human capital and securing larger grants in smart infrastructure systems.”

“The CALS grant is perfect, as it helps our talented students and professors help the University with its sustainably-related goals,” says Sustainability Coordinator Melissa Cadwell. “Being able to work with the students and professors has created a stronger working relationship between Sustainability Management and the campus community.”

The Call for Proposals and application materials may be found at sustainability.syr.edu/cals/. The deadline for proposals submissions is midnight on March 16, 2020.

  • Author

News Staff

  • Recent
  • First-Year Law Student to First-Year Dean: Lau Combines Law and Business to Continue College of Law’s Upward Trajectory
    Thursday, June 26, 2025, By Robert Conrad
  • Student Innovations Shine at 2025 Invent@SU Presentations
    Thursday, June 26, 2025, By Alex Dunbar
  • Iran Escalation: Experts Available This Week
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025, By Vanessa Marquette
  • SCOTUS Win for Combat Veterans Backed by Syracuse Law Clinic
    Monday, June 23, 2025, By Vanessa Marquette
  • Syracuse Views Summer 2025
    Monday, June 23, 2025, By News Staff

More In Campus & Community

Retiring University Professor and Decorated Public Servant Sean O’Keefe G’78 Reflects on a Legacy of Service

For most of his time as a public servant, Sean O’Keefe G’78 adhered to a few guiding principles: Step up when someone calls upon you to serve. Be open to anything. Challenge yourself. Those values helped O’Keefe navigate a career…

Jorge Morales ’26 Named a 2025 Beinecke Scholar

Jorge Morales ’26, a double major in history and anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs with a minor in English and textual studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the highly competitive…

Registration Open for Esports Campus Takeover Hosted by University and Gen.G

Syracuse University and global esports and gaming organization Gen.G have opened general registration at campustakeover.gg for its first Campus Takeover Sept. 20-21. The two-day conference will bring students and administrators to Syracuse to highlight career opportunities within the esports industry…

2 Whitman Students Earn Prestigious AWESOME Scholarship

For the first time in the 12-year history of the program, both nominees from the Whitman School of Management have been selected as recipients of the 2025 AWESOME Excellence in Education Scholarship, a prestigious honor awarded to top-performing undergraduate women…

Whitman’s Johan Wiklund Named a Top Scholar Globally for Business Research Publications

The Whitman School of Management’s Distinguished Professor Johan Wiklund was recently listed as one of the most prolific business and economic research scholars globally, according to “What We Know About the Science of Science in Business and Economics? Insights From…

Subscribe to SU Today

If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu.

Connect With Us

  • X
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
Social Media Directory

For the Media

Find an Expert Follow @SyracuseUNews
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • @SyracuseU
  • @SyracuseUNews
  • Social Media Directory
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Campus Status
  • Syracuse.edu
© 2025 Syracuse University News. All Rights Reserved.