An honors student developed their own independent study and project to translate learning outcomes from a College of Public Health Environmental Health course to an institutional action toolkit, and presented a campus advocacy campaign, specifically addressing health impacts of single use plastics on campus.

Students from a Tyler School of Art and Architecture Community Arts Practices course designed and hosted an original, interactive pop-up event to support campus awareness and climate justice literacy related to the Trust for Public Land/Amber Arts ongoing Fairhill community project Heat Response.

Students from a College of Liberal Arts Urban Environment course designed engagement campaigns and programming to create and strengthen a community assisted technology initiative, Act on Air, which distributes and stewards low-cost air monitors in local North Philadelphia communities and on Temple's campuses.

Students from a Tyler School of Art and Architecture Facilities Management methods course analyzed the latest Sustainability Annual Report and developed and pitched a new facilities-focused sustainability initiative such as assessing the feasibility of on-site solar on Main Campus.

Students from a College of Engineering Civil & Environmental Engineering senior design course investigated potential energy savings from the installation of a green roof on Klein Hall, the building that houses the Beasley School of Law.

A Fox School of Business Supply Chain Management student served on a Dining Services Student Committee alongside Temple's Aramark staff and performed a gap analysis on existing purchasing policies and menus to identify opportunities to better incorporate plant-based and low carbon foods in on-campus culinary services.

The Integrative Ecology Lab at the Center for Biodiversity in the College of Science and Technology's Biology Department includes graduate student researchers who are performing a long-term study on the impacts of the invasive spotted lantern fly on the plant species on campus.

The Office of Sustainability collaborated with Sports Tourism and Hospitality Management faculty for a semester-long project-based learning assignment for a higher-level Sustainable Events course, resulting in a co-produced Green Events 101 workshop hosted as part of an Earth Month programming series. 

As part of a College of Liberal Arts' Sustainable Cities course, students performed walk audits in a group on High Injury Network Corridors immediately adjacent to campus, within the Police Boundary. They related observations to course themes and created a narrative around walking in sustainable cities, making recommendations for improvements and advocating for pedestrian safety.

A group of Environmental Engineering students won a research grant to perform a waste audit of outdoor trash and recycling receptacles in hot spot outdoor dining locations to learn more about diversion performance and student behavior. They also did an analysis of the single use plastic waste types and identified two types that could be ground down and reused in aggregate for a filustruder and future 3-D printing projects in the lab.