Announcing the recipients of the 2024 Green Labs Fund

August 6, 2024

Each year, the Green Labs Fund is awarded to laboratories across both UBC’s Vancouver and Okanagan campuses to generate sustainable solutions in laboratories that reduce the environmental impact of research activities. 

This year, four labs across both campuses have been awarded the Green Labs Fund for their innovative sustainable projects:

  • Toward Greener Preservation: Vacuum-Based Long Term Heart Tissue Storage as an Alternative to Formaldehyde
    Centre for Heart Lung Innovation

  • Mini-Gas Chromatograph for undergraduate laboratories
    Department of Chemistry, UBC Okanagan
     

  • Green Waste Management through Biochar Production 
    The Soil Res3 lab, Department of Land and Food Systems – Applied Biology
     
  • Designing and Developing Procedures for Reuse of Nafion Membranes to Minimize Waste in Electrochemical Laboratories
    Amini Lab, Department of Material Engineering 

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