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Student Sustainability Awards

Student Sustainability Awards

SUNY is committed to sustainability and elevating the ongoing work done by students, faculty, and staff on every campus. With that commitment, the SUNY Office of Sustainability launched the first-ever system-wide Student Sustainability Awards in 2025. This program recognizes students with a scholarship for the work they have done to advance sustainability on their campus and also rewards them with a micro-grant to create an event, activity, or program that gets other students involved.

See more information about the 2025/26 awardees

Prizes were awarded in 5 categories:

  1. Arts and Communication Award: Recognition for undergraduate students that have engaged stakeholders to raise awareness and engagement around sustainability issues. Students should highlight how their art and/or communication efforts have inspired action and delivered measurable impact.
  2. Footprint Award: Recognition for undergraduate students that have worked to reduce human impacts on the environment (through transportation, waste, food or other topics) and/or enhance the natural environment and ecosystems in their community. Students should highlight the specific impact they have had.
  3. Research Award: Recognition for undergraduate students that have conducted research that disseminates and advances knowledge in the sustainability field (includes any number academic disciplines, e.g., engineering, technology, agriculture, social science, etc.). Students should highlight how their research has helped disseminate and/or advance knowledge in the sustainability field.
  4. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award: Recognition for undergraduate students that have worked in the development, implementation, or application of a sustainability-related solution, product (e.g., business, club, or other entity), or technology. Students should highlight what role they played in the development, implementation, or application of the sustainability-related solution and the current status.
  5. Environmental Justice Award: Recognition for undergraduate students devoted to social justice through an environmental and climate lens. Students should highlight their experience engaging with diversity, equity, and inclusion and/or a commitment to facilitating and enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the sustainability field.