{"id":15337,"date":"2023-06-21T07:32:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/?p=15337"},"modified":"2023-07-05T20:45:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T00:45:45","slug":"janetos-climate-action-prize-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/2023\/06\/21\/janetos-climate-action-prize-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Janetos Climate Action Prize Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Achieving sustainability in BU research labs with practical strategies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to this year&#8217;s <a data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/research\/campus-climate-lab\/climate-action-prize\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=ccl23&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter062123\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/research\/campus-climate-lab\/climate-action-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Janetos Climate Action Prize<\/a> winner for one of the first-ever <a data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/research\/campus-climate-lab\/research-projects\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/research\/campus-climate-lab\/research-projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Campus Climate Lab<\/a> projects on the BU Medical Campus!<\/p>\n<p>The annual award, celebrating student contributions to the project with the biggest potential impact on BU&#8217;s Climate Action Plan, goes to <strong>Carly Golden<\/strong>, PhD student, Molecular &amp; Translational Medicine. The Janetos Prize review committee also applauds the leadership of faculty mentor <strong>Angie Serrano<\/strong> (Assistant Professor, Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine, Vascular Biology) and team members <strong>Saylor Williams<\/strong> (Serrano Lab Manager) and <strong>Greg Miller<\/strong> (Center for Regenerative Medicine Lab Manager).<\/p>\n<p>A startling statistic was a big driver for the research team: Globally, research labs produce billions of pounds of plastic waste each year. Their goal was to cut down on biomedical waste at BU, working with\u00a0labs at the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) to adopt more sustainable practices \u2014 through recycling, reusing materials, and reducing energy consumption. And their early efforts have put up some impressive numbers: 796 pounds of plastic recycled so far, including pipette tips, media bottles, and PCR plates. And working with the vendor Polycarbin allows them to remanufacture many of these single-use plastics back into new lab products. The Styrofoam for mailing reagents is also being recycled now, about 100 boxes and counting.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/how-to-make-research-labs-more-sustainable\/\"><em>The Brink<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/research\/campus-climate-lab\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=ccl23&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter062123\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/research\/campus-climate-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Campus Climate Lab<\/a> is led by the BU Institute for Global Sustainability in collaboration with BU Sustainability and the Office of Research.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Achieving sustainability in BU research labs with practical strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15764,"featured_media":15349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[712],"tags":[556],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15341,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337\/revisions\/15341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}