Syracuse University
AC-10: Support for Sustainability Research

Syracuse University is harnessing the power of interdisciplinary partnerships to tackle some of society’s biggest challenges.

The Campus as Lab for Sustainability program offers grants to students for research projects and each project must be a collaboration with another college or program.

A current project Syracuse Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee (DEI) and the School of Architecture implemented a reuse, reduce, and recycle practice within the Architecture studios. Bins were assigned to collect paper, cardboard, and chipboard to be recycled, while shelves have been implemented for reusable materials. The goal was for the whole community to be impacted as much as it could be to help. To do the above, measures were implemented school-wide to studios from all years. Furthermore, the project was also assigned a storage space within Slocum Hall to store supplies graduating seniors no longer utilize nor take home, for first year students, the rest of the school, and students from other schools and other majors can now go and get reused supplies instead of constantly buying new ones.
Research Clusters Accelerate the Impact of Emerging Technologies

Research in Sustainable Building and Infrastructure Grant Program
To promote research in sustainable enterprise, the Sustainable Enterprise Partnership, SEP, is a collaboration among Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management and College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), the State University of New York – College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) and the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems all with interest in sustainable buildings and infrastructure. To promote research in sustainable enterprise, the SEP annually awards a grant of up to $20,000, which may be used for stipends, research assistants, materials, travel, and other expenses.

The SEP gratefully acknowledges the cooperation of the U.S. Green Building Council in the research grant program and the generous gift of financial support from United Technologies Corporation.

Research in Sustainable Building and Infrastructure Grant Program
To promote research in sustainable enterprise, the Sustainable Enterprise Partnership, SEP, is a collaboration among Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management and College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), the State University of New York – College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) and the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems all with interest in sustainable buildings and infrastructure. To promote research in sustainable enterprise, the SEP annually awards a grant of up to $20,000, which may be used for stipends, research assistants, materials, travel, and other expenses.
The SEP gratefully acknowledges the cooperation of the U.S. Green Building Council in the research grant program and the generous gift of financial support from United Technologies Corporation.

Campus as a Lab Grants program is available to faculty who wish to pursue sustainability research projects. Funds are available each year for projects that address energy use or carbon emissions, directly or indirectly, or that advance awareness about climate disruption and sustainability on campus.

Syracuse University recognizes that the role of academia is not static and that methodologies, topics of interest, and boundaries within and between disciplines change over time. The University will continue to support scholars in all of these traditions, including faculty who choose to participate in publicly engaged scholarship. Publicly engaged scholarship may involve partnerships of University knowledge and resources with those of the public and private sectors to enrich scholarship, research, creative activity, and public knowledge; enhance curriculum, teaching and learning; prepare educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility; address and help solve critical social problems; and contribute to the public good.
Syracuse University is a top-tier international research university, where academic inquiry spans and unites a full range of disciplines. Faculty and students collaborate to produce research, scholarship and creative work that advances our fundamental understanding of issues facing society and innovative solutions that have an impact at the community, state, national and global level.
Research at Syracuse University impacts individuals, communities and society, while creating opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to chart their own course through mentored and independent research experiences. Whether advancing fundamental understanding of the world around us, innovating to address pressing global needs or fostering curiosity-driven inquiry, Syracuse University research goes beyond what’s known to shape what’s possible.
Syracuse is committed to advancing research excellence to address pressing global needs, basic research that advances fundamental understanding, and curiosity-driven inquiry.

https://www.syracuse.edu/academics/research/

Librarians create learning and research guides, aggressively acquire books in sustainability fields, and occasionally co-sponsor events related to sustainability, particularly interdisciplinary events and book events.
https://syracuse.summon.serialssolutions.com/search?q=sustainability#!/search?ho=t&l=en&q=sustainability
http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/sustainability