ECo Impact Awards
ECo Impact awards provide seed funding across Georgetown’s schools and campuses for projects that involve environmental and/or sustainability themes. Funding is designed to seed research projects and grant proposals that jumpstart new collaborations and interdisciplinary research inquiries. The aim of these awards is to transform ideas into actionable projects and to help make Georgetown and its scholarship greener and more vibrant.
2024 Recipients
Exploring Zoonotic Disease Reservoirs Hidden in a Keystone Resource
Brian Griffiths, Jamie W. Becker
Examining the Connection Between Exposure to Elevated Temperature and Adverse Mental Health Outcomes in Urban Heat Island Slum Communities in Bangladesh
Shabab Wahid, Emily Mendenhall
The Political Economy of Decarbonization: Innovation, Contestation, and Backlash
Tim Bartley, Erik Voeten, Kathleen Mcnamara, Abraham Newman
What Is “Normal” About Climate Change? An Investigation of How Social Norms Frame Influences Intention to Act
Marissa Fond, Rose Hendricks, Charlotte Vaughn
2023 Recipients
Building green futures in arid lands: Energy transitions and paradoxes of sustainability in Morocco and Namibia
Silvia Danielak, Meredith McKittrick
Developing a population model to quantify Bottlenose Dolphin abundance in the mid-Chesapeake Bay
Janet Mann, Verena Conkin, Daniel Linden, Eric Patterson
Exploring nanoporous Cu-based bimetallic foams as novel electrocatalysts for mitigating environmental stressors
Kai Liu, YuYe J. Tong, Dejun Chen
The impact of temperature on vector-borne disease transmission in staple crops
Oswaldo Villena, Ali Arab, Peter Armbruster
2022 Recipients
A Cosmic Perspective on Environmental Crisis
Sarah Stewart Johnson, Dagomar DeGroot, Bill Diamond, Jonathon Keats
ECo Impact Project Stories
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“Spotlight” on Magnetic High Entropy Alloys
Researchers in the Physics Department of Georgetown University have demonstrated a novel approach to achieve strong magnets using high entropy alloys, without relying on the traditional ingredients of rare-earth elements.
September 11, 2024
All, ECo Impact Funding
Particulate Filtration using Multifunctional Metallic Nanowire Foams
September 3, 2024
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ECo Impact Awards: Project Progress
July 27, 2023
ECo Impact Funding, Scholarship, University Stories
June 20, 2023
Recipients before 2022
Previously known as the Georgetown Environment Initiative’s Impact Program, recipients from 2013-2021 have utilized funds to pilot projects, explore new research topics, and seed new collaborations