SPOTLIGHT
Green Campus Tour
Guided maps of sustainability initiatives at Temple University
Climate Action Plan
Temple became a signatory of the Presidents Climate Commitment in 2008 and again in 2016.
Annual Report
Find out about Temple’s progress toward a more sustainable future by reviewing our Annual Report
Faculty Funded Research
As a member of the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), Temple University developed a Climate Action Plan in 2010 with one of its goals to expand sustainability research. Temple faculty from many disciplines engage in research in a wide range of sustainability topics.
Click to view recent funded research:
| Project | School and Department | Lead Investigator(s) | Funding Source |
Start Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Using Data from Climate Science to Teach Introductory Statistics |
Statistics, Business & Management, Fox School of |
Dr. Gary Witt | Temple University | 09/2013 |
| Water and Environmental Technology Center (WET) |
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Engineering, College of |
Rominder Suri | NSF | 08/2011 |
| Sustainable Communities Initiative |
Political Science, Liberal Arts, College of |
Barbara Ferman | Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine | 04/2011 |
| CAREER: II-VI Semiconductor Vapor Phase Epitaxy guided by Kinetically Active Surface Agents |
Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, College of |
Svetlana Neretina | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 02/2011 |
| T-VSSI Breaking Down Barriers Phase IV |
Community and Regional Planning, Environmental Design, School of |
Jeffrey Featherstone | William Penn Foundation | 01/2011 |
| Large-Scale Fabrication of Printable Hybrid Solar Cells |
Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, College of |
Svetlana Neretina | Drexel University | 01/2011 |
| Porous Plastic-Based Cementitious Materials for Pervious Pavements |
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Engineering, College of |
Naji Khoury | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 01/2011 |
| Biodegradation of Buried Oil: Evaluation, Prediction, and Enhancement: A decision support study The Unified Incident Command of the DWH Spill |
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Engineering, College of |
Michel Boufadel, Benoit Van Aken | U.S. Coast Guard | 12/2010 |
| Carbon Sequestration through Restoration in Philadelphia Fairmount Park |
Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, Environmental Design, School of |
Mary Myers | National Fish and Wildlife Foundation | 12/2010 |
| Digging Deeper |
Architecture, Art, Tyler School of |
Sally Harrison | Village of Arts & Humanities | 11/2010 |