2025 Student Sustainability Awards
The 2025 Student Sustainability Awards intend to recognize important contributions to UC Irvine and the Orange County region for sustainable progress, advocacy, and research by students during 2024-2025. University of California, Irvine undergraduate and graduate students of the current academic year are eligible for these awards.
Student Sustainability Award recipients will be announced during Week 10 and recognized.
How to Nominate:
Students, staff, faculty, or community members can nominate undergraduate or graduate students for any award (including students nominating themselves). Submissions will be due Friday, May 9th at 11:59PM. Submissions will be reviewed promptly, and awardees will be notified prior to the announcement.
Multiple submissions are welcome.
1. Outstanding Sustainability Research Contributions
This award is intended to recognize a student that has contributed greatly to sustainability research at UC Irvine. This award celebrates the important place students have in research at UC Irvine. The student receiving this award should have substantial contributions to a research team, individual research, or faculty research that influences sustainability in a particular field.
2. Outstanding Environmental Justice Advocacy
This award intends to recognize a student, registered campus organization, other student group, event, or project for outstanding contributions for environmental justice issues at UC Irvine and in the surrounding community. This award celebrates direct actions and advocacy efforts that foster justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in sustainability work.
3. Outstanding Sustainability Initiative
This award intends to recognize a student, registered campus organization, or other student group for the implementation of an event, program, project, or other that greatly enhanced sustainability at UC Irvine or in the surrounding community. This award celebrates the student leadership needed to improve sustainability at UC Irvine through many different initiatives.
4. Outstanding Sustainability Champion
This award intends to recognize an individual student that has contributed greatly to the improvement of sustainability at UC Irvine. This award celebrates student leadership, innovation, and love for UC Irvine and wanting to improve its sustainability efforts. The student receiving this award should have impacted other students, the campus, and/or the community through their efforts this year.
If you have any questions about the nomination process or awards, please reach out to sustainability-center@uci.edu.