The Green Fund supports student-initiated projects that improve the sustainability of campus facilities. Below you’ll find the projects we funded in the last year.
Click on the links to the right to see previous years’ projects!
Green Fund Project Archives
Green Fund Projects 2024-2025
Energy Saving Ice Cream | Babcock Dairy Plant | Fall 2024 | $10,615
Food science, health science, and engineering students will develop and test an ice cream recipe that can be held at a higher temperature, allowing freezers to use less energy, with the hope of changing the industry standard.
Stone Reuse | East Campus Mall | Fall 2024 | $8,000
Landscape architecture students designed an outdoor gathering place on East Campus Mall reusing stone blocks from a campus construction project.
Electric Vehicle Pilot | Housing | Fall 2024 | $5,000
Students are working with Housing to purchase an electric vehicle and gather feedback and best practices to support the electrification of campus vehicles.
Outdoor Classroom Shade Structure | Allen Centennial Gardens | Fall 2024 | $1,800
Students from Engineers for a Sustainable World are designing a shade structure with an eye toward material reuse, supporting the UW’s Zero Waste efforts and Allen Centennial Garden’s outdoor education programming.
Bird-Safe Windows | Microbial Sciences | Fall 2024 | $10,000
Students from Audubon Society UW–Madison are working to install bird-safe window upgrades at Microbial Sciences, the site of the most bird collisions with glass of any campus building.
Reusable Crates | Wisconsin Union | Fall 2024 | $2,700
The Wisconsin Union will purchase reusable crates from their fruit and vegetable vendor for use in place of cardboard boxes. Students anticipate this will save $54,200 in operating costs and reduce waste by 37 metric tons a year.
Have an idea that addresses the environmental footprint, social impact, and operating costs of on-campus facilities? Green Fund staff can assist with proposal development at any time. Please contact Green Fund Program Manager, Ian Aley.