2020-21 MCSI Sustainability Research Seed Grant Recipients

Pitt faculty awarded 2020-2021 MCSI sustainability research seed grants.

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Pitt’s Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation annually awards research seed grants to engage researchers passionate about and engaged in sustainability. SEED grants support graduate student and post-doctoral fellows on one-year research projects.  The 2020-2021 MCSI Research Grants were awarded to:

  • A Circular Chemical Industry: Closing the Anthropogenic Carbon Cycle with Biomimetic Reactors
    James McKone, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
  • Mapping the Landscape of Seafood in Pittsburgh Markets: Do Safe, Sustainable and Accessible Meet?
    Carla Ng, Civil & Environmental Engineering 
  • Optimization of Traffic Signals on Pitt’s Campus Road Network to Reduce Fuel Consumption and Green House Gas Emissions from Vehicular Traffic
    Aleksandar Stevanovic, Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • Up-Cycling of Machining Scrap via Mechano-Chemical Attrition Enhanced Hydride-Dehydride Processing for Sustainable Ti-Powder Fabrication
    Jorg Wiezorek, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
    Ravi Shankar, Industrial Engineering

Congratulations to all of this year’s recipients!  Learn more about MCSI research seed grant recipients since 2015.

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