Project Grant Recipients

Slow Sand Bio-Filter
- Funding: $673
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Mediators Beyond Borders
- Funding: $4,972
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Sustainable Textile Symposium
- Funding: $4,137
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Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture
- Funding: $1,300
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Vegan Sustainability Outreach / Education
- Funding: $900
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Bamboo in Structural Uses
- Funding: $3,000
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Spring Creek Writing Contest
- Funding: $2,460
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Solar Vehicle Team
- Funding: $5,035
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Concrete Canoe Team
- Funding: $1,282
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OSU Hydrogen Trailer
- Funding: $4,500
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Family Housing Community Garden
- Funding: $570
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Deep Sustainability—Stories, Ideas, and Strategies for a Truly Durable Culture
- Funding Amount: $2000
- Recipient: Erin Herrington and the OSU Spring Creek Project
- Description: This project will invite submissions of personal essays, articles, creative writing and opinion pieces from OSU students on the topic, “How can OSU and Corvallis help create a truly sustainable society?” Selected writings will be published in a pull-out section of the Daily Barometer during Spring term.

Ferrocement Tank Construction for Organic Grower’s Club Rainwater Catchment System
- Funding Amount: $5331
- Recipient: Abe Mooney and the OSU Engineers Without Borders Club
- Description: The Engineers Without Borders Club (EWB) at Oregon State University will collaborate with OSU’s Organic Growers Club (OGC) in the construction of a rainwater catchment system along with a ferrocement tank for use by the OGC. Rainwater will be piped from roof gutters to the tank where it will be stored until used for irrigation. EWB is working to provide a sustainable water source for the small village of Lela, Kenya and is considering the implementation of a rainwater catchment system and/or drilling a well. The experience and knowledge gained by constructing this sustainable water source solution in Corvallis will give EWB valuable insight to its implementation in Lela.

Covered kitchenette with energy producing gacifier oven
- Funding Amount: $3500
- Recipient: Michelle Anderson and the Organic Growers Club
- Description: The Organic Grower’s Club (ORGs) has developed a creative way to further their goal of sustainability, while taking care of some critical needs at the student run farm. They propose to build a small covered area which will serve as a clean and prep station, tool storage, and gathering place. The unique feature of this shelter will be the sustainability provided by a power producing cook stove. The building will also feature a vegetable washing sink with an innovative new greywater drainage system. The club is asking for $6000 which will return a brand new approximately 200 square foot building with a gasifying oven, a kitchen sink with faucet, cupboard space, and tool storage area. ORGs will work with the School of Engineering and the Construction Management Program in a quality design/build project.

Rain Garden Demonstration Site at Gilmore Hall
- Funding Amount: $5950
- Recipient Hayden Ausland and the OSU Ecological Engineering Student Society
- Description: The Ecological Engineering Student Society (EESS) will the installation of a rain garden on the Oregon State University campus. A rain garden is a shallow depression in the ground planted with native vegetation that captures and treats storm water runoff from a driveway or roof. Our primary goal is to design and construct this garden to demonstrate awareness of sustainable storm water management for the benefit of the University and Corvallis communities. This demonstration would show the advantages of water quality improvement, runoff reduction, and natural water cycle restoration. This garden is also intended to recharge the groundwater aquifer, provide beneficial wildlife habitat, and promote aesthetics.

Magruder Hall Composting Center
- Funding Amount: $350
- Recipient: Sami Pederson
- Description: Magruder Hall is home to the OSU College of Veterinary Medicine and a small student group responsible for some of the building’s recycling and composting. We currently have an indoor system set up for the eco-friendly disposal of recyclables and food-wastes. While the recycling is picked up by the city or taken to the Co-op, the compost is taken over to the main campus’s Student Sustainability Center. Our goal is to build a three-bin compost system at Magruder Hall so we can more easily dispose of our organic wastes, as well as return their degraded products back to the landscape around our intimate building. • Azalea House Vegetable Garden Improvements o Funding Amount: $570 o Recipient: Gwyn Case and the Azalea House Co-op o Description: Plans to increase the growing capabilities of the co-op house by adding more raised beds and building cold frames. The Azalea House Co-op has a garden that does not receive enough light, has no cold protection, and is far too small to feed 55 women. The goal of this project is to expand our growing capabilities, so that they can grow more food and for a larger part of the year. They intend to do this by doubling the number of raised beds and building cold frames.

Orchard Court Student Family Housing Community Garden
- Funding Amount: $975
- Recipient: Michelle Bullock and Orchard Court Student Family Housing Complex
- Description: Orchard Court Student Family Housing will be starting its community garden, serving approximately 20-40 residents of the neighborhood. The goals of the project are to provide healthy produce for Orchard Court residents, teach residents sustainable methods of gardening, promote opportunities for social interaction between the residents, and to improve the appearance of the neighborhood with a garden in the place of a vacant lot. The establishment of a community garden on Orchard Avenue will improve the quality of life for the families that live on campus at OSU through increasing food security, working in the soil outdoors, and socializing with neighbors in the garden. Additionally, a community garden for the families of Orchard Court will provide an opportunity for collaboration with and the success of a thriving campuswide gardening community.

Student Sustainability Initiative