ROSEI Summit • Hopkins Dining Donates • Living Lab Spotlights |
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Hello, sustainability friends! The groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter, but that won’t impact all the HOT climate and sustainability activities going on around JHU! This month we focus on activities from around the university, including details from the ROSEI sustainable energy research summit, Hopkins Dining community outreach to local non-profits, and celebration of labs that were recently awarded JHU Green Lab Green Certification. We continue our Campus as a Living Lab spotlight series with two multidisciplinary projects: capturing and storing rainwater for irrigation and reducing food waste in JHU dining halls. Also be sure to check out details about an opening at the Peale Museum this month and opportunities to contribute to a travel dashboard workshop.
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ROSEI Hosts Annual Summit |
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Hopkins Dining Donates Chairs to Local Non-profits |
During the days of social distancing, multitudes of modifications were made throughout the university. One of the changes was to the layout of JHU’s dining facilities. In order to provide necessary social distancing at tables, a total of 150 chairs were removed from the Hopkins Café and Levering Kitchen locations. In 2022, upgrades to these dining areas provided additional food selections for students, but meant there was no longer space for the stored chairs to be returned.
Executive Chef Tim Bruce worked with the Office of Climate and Sustainability to identify local non-profits that could use them. Hopkins Dining was able to donate the chairs to MRI Studios Inc, Challenge 2 Change, and Civic Works.
“Since we are a student, university, and community-based dining program we were happy to make donations to community partners that had a need.” - Executive Chef Tim Bruce
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Labs Earn Green Certification |
In December, several JHU labs earned the Green Certified designation. Congratulations to:
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| Avolio Lab, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, KSAS
Bonifant Lab, Department of Pediatric Oncology, SoM
Hilser Lab, Department of Biology, KSAS
Schulman Lab, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, WSE
Sun Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, WSE
Tsapatsis Lab, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, WSE
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| Transportation Survey Receives Thousands of Responses |
JHU recently conducted the bi-annual transportation survey to better understand the commuting patterns of faculty, staff, and students. Although the results are still being calculated, we wanted to take a moment to give a big shout out to the over 3,000 people who responded to the survey! Your participation will help JHU work towards efficiencies in shuttle services, assess parking needs, and work towards more eco-friendly commuting options. Stay tuned for more on the survey results in the coming months!
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The Campus as a Living Lab program supports innovative research and teaching projects that use the campus as a testbed for scalable sustainability solutions. In the spotlight this month are two projects awarded funding through the program as part of a two-semester Multidisciplinary Engineering Design course. Learn more about each project below:
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Innovations to Capture & Store Rainwater for Garden Irrigation |
Engineering students are designing a modular rainwater collection, storage, and irrigation system which will be tested on JHU’s Homewood Campus and then replicated at Baltimore K-12 school gardens. The innovative prototypes will serve to demonstrate stormwater management strategies to passersby and students.
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Engineering Solutions to Reduce Food Waste in JHU Dining Halls |
A team of students are developing a software data collection and visualization tool to understand how much dining hall food goes to waste after student meals. The project explored how to collect student feedback and how to automate ongoing data collection on the amount of food disposed in dining halls. The findings can be used by Hopkins Dining to guide food purchasing decisions which can then reduce food waste.
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Join the Well-Being Newsletter from the HR Benefits and Worklife Office
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Hey JHU Faculty and Staff! We’re excited to share that our colleagues in the HR Benefits and Worklife office are starting a newsletter focused on resources for your well-being!
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Exhibition Opening | The Future of Here: A Glimpse of a River Culture to Come |
The Future of Here is an invitation to reimagine our place along the Jones Falls River and the Chesapeake Bay in a distant future beyond our fossil-fueled present. Consider what local landscapes and cultures might look like in a time far beyond the Baltimore we know now. What artifacts might people of that future time produce, and how might they make creative use of the many things we leave behind? The exhibition features work made by a collective of artists and researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the fall of 2024, anchored in a class co-taught by visual artist Jordan Tierney and environmental anthropologist Anand Pandian. We present artifacts and evidence from our collective journey into the future.
Attend the exhibit opening on Thursday, February 13, from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm at the Peale Museum.
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Business Travel Emissions Dashboard Workshop |
An interdisciplinary team is creating a web dashboard to visualize emissions from business travel as a Campus as a Living Lab project that supports the goals of JHU's Climate Action and Sustainability Plan. Participants are invited to join a human-centered design workshop on Thursday, February 20, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. EST, where faculty and staff participants will chart a course for the dashboard to achieve positive change at the university.
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