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Student Achievements

Michelle Muturi ’23 Wins 2023 Napier Award to Improve the Experiences of Kenyan Schoolchildren

Alum's idea for recycling discarded plastic to create eco-bricks has been awarded a 2023 Napier Initiative Award

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• Students
• Awards
• Environmental Sustainability

Student Achievements

ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Students Preserve a Rare Ecosystem on Campus

Two students collaborate with the California Botanic Garden and ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½â€™s Robert Redford Conservancy to preserve the Outback’s rare ecological habitat

News Topics

• Climate & Environment
• Environmental Sustainability

Organization

• Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability

Student Achievements

Student Diana Vicezar ’24 Joins Other Youth Activists at Global Climate Summit

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• Students
• Environmental Sustainability

In the Media

The San José Spotlight publishes an op-ed on affordable housing by Charlotte Richards ’25, who wrote the commentary as part of her ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ First-Year Seminar Radical Care

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• Environmental Sustainability
• Students

Alumni Achievements

Devon Hartman ’77 Plans to (Solar) Power the Economy

ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ alumnus Devon Hartman ’77 has launched CHERP Solar Works, the world’s first nonprofit solar panel assembly factory, based in Pomona, CA. The project aims to create hundreds of living-wage jobs, provide free solar power to low-income families, and rebuild U.S. solar manufacturing through a national network of community-based micro-factories. Founded by Hartman’s nonprofit CHERP Inc., this initiative unites climate action and economic opportunity, reflecting the lifelong values of activism and sustainability that began at ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½.

News Topics

• Environmental Sustainability
• Technology