Alissa Burkholder Murphy, senior lecturer and director of the Multidisciplinary Design Program, and lecturer Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh were awarded inaugural Campus as a Living Lab sustainability grants by the Office of Climate & Sustainability and the Sustainability Leadership Council.
Burkholder Murphy’s project, an Automated Way to Measure and Identify Student Food Waste to Inform Responsible Consumption Initiatives, is led by a team of students in the course Multidisciplinary Engineering Design, who will design an automated system to weigh and identify food waste in JHU dining halls. The project will inform Hopkins Dining as to the relationship between recipe selections, menus, and efficacy of food waste reduction initiatives.
Abu-Mulaweh’s project, also for the course Multidisciplinary Engineering Design, is led by a team of students who will design a modular rainwater collection, storage, and distribution solution for garden irrigation on JHU’s Homewood campus and a Baltimore K-8 school, teaching students about design approaches to stormwater management.
Learn more about the Campus as a Living Lab sustainability grant program at the Hub.