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The 26th annual Campus Sustainability Awards program recognizes outstanding individuals and departments who demonstrate a sincere commitment to enhancing CU Boulder’s longstanding commitment to sustainability. Awardees exhibit innovation that directly reduces the university's ecological footprint, enhances social cohesion and equity in the campus community, and/or integrates sustainability into the culture of Boulder and our local communities.

Awards will be in the form of a 100% recycled-content plaque presented by campus leadership at the 30th annual Campus Sustainability Summit scheduled for April 19–20.

This year, there are seven campus sustainability awardees:

• Karen Bailey, Green Faculty
• The Colorado Environmental Justice Digital Storytelling Project, Civic Achievement
• , Student Leadership
• Emily Yeh, Green Faculty
• , Outstanding Alumni
• Mountain Research Station, Departmental Achievement
• Mortenson Center in Global Engineering and Resilience, Civic Achievement

Three partnership initiatives deserve special recognition: 

• Climate Across the Curriculum Training, Special Recognition, Partnership for Sustainability
• , Special Recognition, Partnership for Sustainability
• Buffs One Read, Special Recognition, Partnership for Sustainability

The CU Green Labs Program recognizes three awardees:

• MIMIC Core Facility, Partnership for Sustainability
• Department of Biochemistry Shared Equipment, Departmental Achievement 
• CHEM 1021 Green Chemistry Integration, Partnership for Sustainability