The following project highlight the goals of this year's fellows. For more information and contact information on these projects and more, search the Fellowships database by campus or project topic.

Charles Scott Forbes Jr.
Rhodes College
Charles’ project, “The Power of Solar Energy” will develop an educational demonstration of solar energy for the Rhodes Campus and the surrounding Memphis community.  Photovoltaic cells will be installed on the roof of the physics building to power a showcase in the lobby

Lisa Anderson and Erica Tauzer
Albion College
Lisa and Erica will be working together as the first NWF fellow “team”. Their plan is to educate students, faculty, staff, and administration about potential environmental and sustainable practices at Albion College and create a goal reaching carbon neutrality.  Their goals include creating an Albion College sustainability website, the formation of a Green Council, a greenhouse gas inventory, and improved campus and community involvement

Rachel Sholly
University of Rhode Island
Rachel will create a Clean Transportation Policy to improve transportation in a way that increases environmental, economic, and social responsibility of the University of Rhode Island.

Edward Speck Kern
Marquette University
Edward will be working with a team of engineering students at Marquette University to convert a 15-passanger gas run vehicle into an electric one.

Cynthia Klein-Banai
University of Illinois
This project will establish a data collection mechanism for performing an annual Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), while completing the inventory for fiscal year 2007 and 2008

Sarah Mann
Ohio University
Sarah’s project will be focused on implementing more effective commuter options on the rural Appalachia based campus of Ohio University, as well as facilitating dialogue surrounding greener transportation, a challenging aspect of sustainable living for many rural based communities.

Leanne Farrell
Roger Williams University
By following NWF’s backyard wildlife habitat guidelines and other sustainable landscaping principles, Leanne’s project will create an ecologically-sound organic, native wildflower and wildlife garden that can be used as a hands-on location to teach students from kindergarten to the undergraduate level important concepts of ecology and sustainability that relate to global climate change and other environmental issues.

Campus Ecology...It takes a big step to make a smaller footprint.