Learn more about some of the energy and society projects and experiences Irving Institute mini-grants have helped support by clicking on the titles below.
Nathaniel Roe '23 used mini-grant funding to help support his unpaid solar strategy internship at Solaflect Energy in Norwich, VT.
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Kristin Ng TU'22 recieved an Irving Institute mini-grant to help defray costs of a summer internship with a cultivated meat company whose product requires significantly less energy than tradtional meat farming.
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John Ejiogu '24 used his Irving Institute mini-grant to research energy generation and dissemination in Nigeria.
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Emma Doherty '21 recieved mini-grant funding to conduct research for her thesis project on developing prefabricated facade panels for deep energy retrofits in the northeastern United States.
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Abigail Brazil '21, Mallory Byrd '19, Th'20, Marisa Magsarili '19, Ben Saccone '20, and Kevin Yang '20 traveled to the Inian Islands Institute to help install a micro-hyrdo generator at this remote sustainability institute in Alaska.
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Katherine Anderson, Graduate Student, Earth Sciences, traveled to Denali National Park in Alaska to help support a team investigating changing snowpack and its implications for hydroelectric development in the state.
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Zachary Berzolla, TH'19, used his mini-grant to support his work with VerMod, a Wilder, VT-based Zero Energy Modular housing builder and document and create 3-D models to introduce the ideas and benefits of Zero Energy Modular buildings, VerMod's factory process, and lessons learned from VerMod's first five years of operation.
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Shannon Sartain '21 was the first recipient of an Irving Institute mini-grant. Institute funding helped her to defray the costs of attending the Google Earth Engine Summit
in Dublin, where she gained skills and connections to help her pursue her academic and professional goals.
