Recent Capstone Projects

Shared with permission of the students and their community partners, here are some examples from recent capstone projects.  Check out some of the innovative and important work your classmates have done as you try to think about what you might want to do in your own community.

Summer 2024

• Eric Holz - Cultivating Change: Advancing Sustainability Initiatives of Pacific Quest
• Calvin Lee - Advancing Solar Energy Implementation in Conshohocken Borough

Spring 2024

• Katie Cloud - Sustainability and Dorsett Shoals Baptist Church:  A Breakdown of Funding Opportunities, Sustainable Actions, and Community Engagement
• Karrie Goudy - An Analysis of the Impacts of Human Population Density and a Changing Climate on Native Wildlife in South Central PA
• Julia Ortiz - Finding Funding and Sourcing Sponsors for a Permanent Food Scrap Collection Program in State College, PA

Fall 2023

• Shaun Cerborino - Zoned Out:  Philadelphia Zoning Code and the Philly Tree Plan
• MIke Dabulas - A Sustainable Fanwood
• Louis DeCordova - Shiomida Community Disaster Management and Response Report
• Shana Murphy - Centre Region Food Scraps Drop-off Pilot Project
• JungHyun Ro - The Korean Government's Decarbonization Bills and Small Businesses

Summer 2023

• Heather Lewis - An Assessment of Tree Ordinancs in Columbia County, Georgia
• Hadyn Moore - 2023 Carlisle SynTec Recycling Revamp

Spring 2023

• Maya Thomas - Expansion of Residential Solar in and Around Chicago, IL for Freedom Solar Power
• Deb Kimball - Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center Permitting Support
• Morgan Miller - Building Retrofitting and Climate Migration Policies in State College, PA
• Daniel Parker - Energy & Water Conservation Opportunities for the Korean Eunkang Church of Ogden, Kansas
• Kayla Peate - A Sustainable Winery: Inventory of Emissions, Carbon Sinks, Possible Improvements and Smart Land Use Policy

Fall 2022

• Haley Amundsen - Link Up Illinois and the Olde Schaumburg Centre Farmers Market: Evaluating the Cost Benefit Analysis of Implementing Sustainable Food Assistance Programs in Chicagoland
• Sean Collins - Sustainability Recommendations for 825 Tech Drive in the City of Gahanna, CO
• Jarrad Garis - Energy Efficiency Upgrades for the New Creations United Methodist Church, Chesapeake, VA
• Jeremiah Garrick - Turf Replacement in Englewood, CO
• Lauren Larko - Analysis of Illegal Dumping for Allegheny Cleanways
• Melissa Lopez  - North Branch Land Trust Land Quality Analysis
• Leigh Puchalski - Sustainability and the Raymond Farm Center
• Taylor Quaid - Swatara Creek Riparian Buffer Repairment Project
• Kate Robeson-Grubb - Paper & Plastic Product Usage by a Small Research Firm in the PA Bucks-Mont Area
• Alex Swithers - Fire Management Methods: An Economic Assessment of Hazardous Fuel Load Management Methods