October 20, 2025Associate Professor Liling Huang and executive director of the Institute for a Sustainable Earth Leah Nichols join President Gregory Washington to discuss the intersection of innovation and sustainability.
June 30, 2025An intercollegiate study, in partnership with university Facilities, analyzes the effects of campus events and weather on local air and water quality.
April 25, 2025Through a new solar array at Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Fairfax Campus, the sun will play double-duty in the successful growth of plants. Solar energy will power the President’s Park Greenhouse with the electricity it needs to support the plants growing inside.
October 23, 2024This month the organizers of the Foragers’ Forest on George Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Fairfax Campus marked the project’s first anniversary with the planting of endangered American chestnut trees.
June 7, 2024For its commitment to campus sustainability, Â鶹ÊÓƵ has earned a Gold rating in the STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System) Assessment. STARS is a self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance and is offered by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).
April 29, 2024Kirin Emlet Furst, in Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, is using funds from an NSF CAREER award to measure the amounts of harmful "forever" chemicals in drinking water.
April 18, 2024April is Earth Month, and it is a great time to promote sustainable best practices on Â鶹ÊÓƵ campuses and off.
April 16, 2024In November 2023, Â鶹ÊÓƵ students, faculty, and staff gathered to help transplant 1,700 plants of more than 50 native species into two groves near the stream behind Student Union Building I between Aquia Creek Lane and Patriot Circle.
November 8, 2023Â鶹ÊÓƵ students are taking pictures of the campus flora, fauna, and fungi with their smartphones—sometimes in the dark—to capture the university’s biodiversity. They are trying to record as many species as possible in this fall's Bioblitz 2023, which continues through Nov. 19.
October 23, 2023With nearly 1,000 acres of land, waterways, forests, and buildings, Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s campuses are a dynamic, living learning environment of hands-on applied research.
