Earthwise Winners Announced

The Office of Sustainability recently recognized a student, staff and faculty member for outstanding achievement in sustainability on campus with the sixth annual Earthwise Awards. Each received a recycled glass plaque, $200 cash and a pair of tickets to a football game.

Natalie Bunch, a Caldwell Fellow, serves as student-lead for the WE Recycle program in Waste Reduction and Recycling. She writes Installment, a monthly student newsletter on sustainability, and is known for asking participants to bring reusable utensils to Caldwell Fellow meetings where food will be served.

Marcus Wade Fulghum, program manager at the North Carolina Solar Center, helped organize a water challenge between NC State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that saved more than 11 million gallons of water. He previously worked in NC State’s Office of Energy Management.

Dr. H. Christopher Frey was honored for continued research and dedication to education in the fields of air pollution control, air quality and human exposure to air pollutants and pathogens. His work has demonstrated that soy-based B20 fuel leads to reductions in emissions of many air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides. He is a founding advisor of NC State’s student chapter of the Air & Waste Management Association, recognized last year with the national association’s third-place award for best student chapter.