Topics and Expertise: Sustainability

Cool Campus Challenge pushes UCSF forward on sustainability

Wed Apr 13, 2022
Vegetables being cut on a wooden chopping board
Friendly competition offers prizes to students, faculty members, and staff members for taking action on sustainability

Update from the Dean: A fond farewell

Thu Nov 18, 2021
The dean’s final update, including a major advance in tuberculosis treatment and leading UCSF on energy-efficient freezers.

Greener freezers for a greener future

Wed Nov 10, 2021
Laboratory bottles and boxes covered in frost in a freezer
Susan Merrell

Samples and reagents in an ultra-low temperature freezer in the laboratory of Adam Abate, PhD, at the UCSF Mission Bay campus. A recent effort led by UCSF Supply Chain Management’s Dean Shehu and School of Pharmacy Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, replaced 43 of the campus’s least-efficient freezers.

The UCSF School of Pharmacy and Supply Chain Management work to halve the carbon footprint of ultra-low temperature storage

Helium recycling project sets a new standard for sustainability at UCSF

Thu Jun 17, 2021
Helium recycling equipment

The UCSF Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine now use helium recycling equipment, shown above, to avoid wasting the gas, which is used to cool certain types of scientific and medical imaging machines.

The School is now recycling much of the helium used in its NMR facilities.

School of Pharmacy leads in LivingGreen certifications

Mon Jul 8, 2019
Roy working in his lab
Steve Babuljak

The lab of Shuvo Roy, PhD, received the highest possible LivingGreen certification.

The School’s Dean’s Office received Platinum LivingGreen certification for reducing waste, energy, and water usage.

Gruenberg receives sustainability award for second straight year

Fri Jun 29, 2018
Gruenberg
Susan Merrell

Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD, BCPS

Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD ’15, BCPS, a faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Department of Clinical Pharmacy, was awarded the 2018 Sustainability Award in the faculty category by the UCSF Academic Senate Sustainability Committee on June 27, 2018.

Gruenberg connects sustainability and clinical pharmacy

Thu Aug 17, 2017
Gruenberg
UCSF

Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD, BCPS

Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD, BCPS, who was recently appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, has received the 2017 Sustainability Award