2024 Anthony Janetos Climate Action Prize Winners Announced

Boston University recently awarded the fourth annual Anthony Janetos Climate Action Prize to a team of BU College of Engineering students for their work on portable air pollution monitors. The group is currently in talks with Bluebikes about a potential pilot program to gather air quality data from bike trips around Boston.

This year’s winners are:

Lorenzo Barale (Mechanical Engineering, ENG, B.S. May 2025)
Luisa DiLorenzo (Mechanical Engineering, ENG, B.S. May 2024)
Sofiya Filippova (Mechanical Engineering, ENG, B.S. May 2024)
Maya Lobel (Mechanical Engineering, ENG, B.S. May 2024)
Leon Long (Electrical and Computer Engineering, ENG, B.S. May 2024)
Benjamin Pedi (Mechanical Engineering, ENG, B.S. May 2025)
Kai Raina Tung (Mechanical Engineering, ENG, B.S. May 2024)

Read more about this year’s winners here.

The Prize, which includes a financial gift, is awarded annually to the student or team of students involved in a project through BU’s Campus Climate Lab that is judged to have the most substantial impact on advancing the goals of BU’s Climate Action Plan.

The award is named in honor of the late Prof. Tony Janetos, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future from 2013-2019. Tony chaired the 2017 Climate Action Plan Task Force, which led to the creation of the University-wide Climate Action Plan and the Campus Climate Lab. His leadership in the development and early implementation of the Plan inspired this award as a way to memorialize him and those important efforts.

Contributions to the Prize fund can be made here.