Project | Description | Award Amount |
| Beevo Beekeeping Campus Pollinator Enhancement and Education Initiative | Awarded to the student organization, Beevo Beekeeping, to create a pollinator garden adjacent to their beehive location. | $17,200 |
| Filtered Water Bottle Filler- Batts Hall | Awarded to a staff in the Government Department to install the first water bottle filling station in Batts Hall. | $6,569 |
| UT Aquaponics Greenhouse | Awarded to the student organization, Aquaponics, to install a greenhouse in Jester Gardens for their experimental hydroponic designs. | $5,000 |
| Trash(ed) – A Podcast on Waste, Resource Recovery, and Sustainability | Awarded to graduate students in the College of Natural Sciences and the Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations to produce a podcast in partnership with “The Drag” podcast. The goal of the podcast is to facilitate a multidisciplinary dialogue between students, researchers, practitioners, resource recovery staff, sustainability professionals and artists to explore innovative solutions to the environmental, economic and social impacts of waste. | $19,000 |
| Longhorn Racing Electric | Awarded to the student organization, Longhorn Racing Electric, to purchase and install hub motors on their student designed and constructed electric car to improve efficiency. | $25,000 |
| Wildflower Center Garden Waste Composting | Awarded to staff at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center to purchase a shredder in support of their new, on-site composting program and to create research opportunities for undergraduates to compare soil microbes pre and post compost treatment. | $9,269 |
| Shakespeare at Winedale: Shakespeare Sustainably | Awarded to Department of English staff for energy-efficient upgrades to the Winedale Shakespeare Theater Barn and to pilot “Shakespeare Sustainably” programming designed to introduce environmental awareness into the student curriculum and the audience experience. | $15,753 |
| Longhorn Hospitality EcoEvent Waste Reduction Program | Awarded to University and Housing and Dining (UHD) staff to establish an effective composting program with improved equipment and paid student manager positions within UHD Longhorn Hospitality. The pilot program will focus on managing composting efforts during events in Jester and San Jacinto. | $25,199 |
| What Starts Here Changes the Management of Building Demolition Waste | Awarded to faculty in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering to develop a comprehensive waste management program for the demolition of UT Austin’s Chemical and Petroleum Engineering building. Funds will also support the development of a new waste management plan template and a revised waste ticket template for use on all UT demolition projects. The Living Lab project will create research opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate students. | $72,912 |
| Renewing and Expanding the Texas Tropical Network | Awarded to the graduate student members of the Texas Tropical Network to facilitate a lecture series on tropical ecology and to continue fostering academic connections, collaborations and partnerships between departments within UT Austin and between Texas universities with the goal of advancing research, education, conservation and development in tropical regions. | $10,000 |
| Developing Sustainable Prosthetics Through Material Substitution and Energy-Efficient Production Techniques | The student research grant was awarded to the UT Austin chapter of e-NABLE, a global organization that strives to create affordable and accessible prosthetic designs with a mission to make prosthetics cheaper, easier to produce and more environmentally sustainable. The UT Austin of e-NABLE will explore innovative materials, methods to improve energy efficiency and to reduce waste in the prosthetic design and production process. | $5,000 |
| Signs for Experience Waller Creek Audio Tour | Awarded to the student organization, Longhorns Don’t Litter Club, to create and install markers along the ten stops of the “Experience Waller Creek” audio tour in partnership with Environmental Health and Safety staff. Sign installation is contingent upon campus approval. | $13,605 |
| Community Coordinator Position - Student Sustainability Council | Awarded to the student organization, Campus Environmental Center, to hire a student position to facilitate a Student Sustainability Council with the intention of connecting sustainability-focused student organizations and to create a Canvas page to serve as a one-stop resource for students interested in sustainability-related campus volunteer and engagement opportunities. | $6,000 |
| Revival of Sustainability Squad | Awarded to an undergraduate student to work with Athletic Department staff to explore the feasibility of reviving the Sustainability Squad focused on waste reduction at UT Austin athletic events. The grant award is contingent upon Athletic Department approval. | $7,500 |
| Garage Rooftop Photovoltaics Integrated with UT Power Generation Systems Study | Awarded to faculty in the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department to assess the feasibility of and benefits from installing photovoltaic (PV) panels on ten UT Austin campus parking garages with suitable flat roofs. The Living Lab study will quantify the potential carbon emissions reduction available from the proposed PV installation and will investigate short and long term environmental and economic benefits. | $34,200 |
| Towards a Greener Sutton Hall: Energy Analysis and Solar Energy Potential to Achieve Energy Efficiency | Awarded to a graduate student in the School of Architecture to perform a comprehensive investigation focused on improving Sutton Hall’s energy efficiency while preserving its historical character. | $5,000 |
| AI-Driven LEED Compliance Automation: A Campus Living Lab Study | Awarded to a graduate student in the School of Architecture to develop an AI-driven LEED pre-compliance review process. The end product will work as an error detection tool to reduce human errors associated with the manual pre-compliance process. | $5,000 |
| Green Labs | Awarded to Environmental Health and Safety staff in support of the Green Labs program. Funds will support student intern wages and the purchase of ultra-low temperature “loaner” freezers to encourage researchers to defrost their freezers to increase efficiency, Funds will also support the Fume Hood Sash Competition program to encourage research staff to close fume hood sashes to increase efficiency. | $54,600 |
| Campus Hydration Station Mapping and Installation | Awarded to Office of Sustainability staff to hire a student employee to map existing campus water bottle fillers and support the installation of additional water bottle fillers in underserved buildings. | $75,000 |
| Living Lab Initiative | Awarded to Office of Sustainability (OS) staff to formalize a UT Austin Living Lab program to collate existing efforts and grow opportunities in education and improve campus operations and external partnerships by bringing together a diverse team of campus stakeholders to address discrete problems, explore applied research questions, or ignite an initiative that assists the University in achieving its sustainability goals. OS staff will primarily collaborate with Interdisciplinary Studies in the Provost Office and Campus Operations as well as various other academic, auxiliary and operational units. | $75,000 |
