{"id":145617,"date":"2023-10-23T10:31:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=145617"},"modified":"2023-10-24T10:57:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:57:13","slug":"gevelber-named-a-sustainability-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2023\/10\/23\/gevelber-named-a-sustainability-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Gevelber Named a Sustainability Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>IGS Presents 2023 Sustainability Awards<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Boston University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/2023\/10\/18\/igs-2023-sustainability-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Institute for Global Sustainability<\/a> has announced the winners of the 2023 IGS Sustainability Awards, presented on October 12 at the Institute\u2019s annual social gathering of faculty, students, board members, and others across the sustainability research community at Boston University. In addition to honoring faculty and student rising stars advancing sustainability research at BU, this year IGS welcomed featured speaker Oliver Sellers-Garcia, the City of Boston\u2019s first Green New Deal Director. The event also celebrated IGS\u2019s early successes, with remarks from IGS Director Benjamin Sovacool, and showcased student research in poster sessions throughout the event.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s sustainability \u201csuperhero\u201d award winners were recognized for their significant contributions to research or practice in sustainability and climate change, as well as equity and justice. The Sustainability Champion Award went to Associate Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/michael-gevelber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Gevelber<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ME<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/mse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSE<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/se\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SE<\/a>). Student awards went to Alina McIntyre at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SPH<\/a> and Emma Longo at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: left to right, Benjamin Sovacool, IGS Director; Penni McLean-Conner, IGS Advisory Board; Michael Gevelber, College of Engineering; Emily Ryan, IGS Associate Director<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s sustainability \u201csuperhero\u201d award winners were recognized for their significant contributions to research or practice in sustainability and climate change, as well as equity and justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2662,"featured_media":145624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,909,908,1090,910,1],"tags":[1089,480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145617"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145628,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145617\/revisions\/145628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}