NU, Big 10 score big in national green competition
The Big 10 won the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Challenge for the 2012-2013 school year, thanks in big part to Northwestern's contributions, according to a University press release Wednesday.
Universities taking part in the competition are ranked nationally by how many kilowatt-hours generated from green sources their campuses use. The competition then divides all participating universities into their athletic conferences and tallies each conference's total "score." The Big 10 came away with the most green kilowatt-hours of all participating conferences, led by The Ohio State University, the competition's third-highest green power purchaser. Northwestern came in second within the Big 10 having bought or generated more than 96 million kilowatt-hours for the past school year. The University of Wisconsin and the University of Iowa also represented the Big 10 in the competition.
The EPA also ranked each school individually, placing Northwestern as the seventh biggest purchaser of green power in the nation. According to the EPA's website, 37 percent of Northwestern's energy comes from either wind or solar power.
Medill grad wins investigative Pulitzer
New York Times writer David Barstow (Medill '86) won a 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, a Medill news release said Monday. Barstow won the award along with Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab for their work investigating Wal-Mart's shady business practices in Mexico.
Two professors win Guggenheim Fellowships
Weinberg professor Jacqueline Stevens and School of Law faculty member Kristen Stilt were both named Guggenheim Fellows for 2013, a University press release said Monday. Stevens, a political science professor, studies deportation as the director of the Deportation Research Clinic at the Buffett Center. Stilt studies Islamic law and occasionally teaches in Weinberg's History department.
Guggenheim Fellowships are given each year by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to academics in all kinds of fields, from artists to scientists. According to the foundation's website, around 200 fellowships are granted annually. Fellows can come from across North America, including the Caribbean.