(Each Monday during the academic year, I feature a "Campus Highlight": a unique, interesting, and noteworthy student organization, program, or initiative that demonstrates the amazing things college students do each and every day across the country.)
For today's Campus Highlight, I'm focusing on the University of Arizona's Solar Cats. Founded in 2008, the group "(exists) to bring environmentally conscious students of the University together in an effort to implement a means of harnessing solar energy as a power source for our residence hall, Posada San Pedro, in partnership with the faculty and staff of the University." Fortunately, however, they are not limiting their environmental activism to their residence hall; they also hope that "(by) unifying students and staff through an understanding of the critical importance of leading our University into the sustainable era, combining all of our voices as one, we hope to achieve solar energy for our hall and ultimately for our University as a whole in future years."
Way to go, Solar Cats, for using so many great resources (academic training, faculty and staff allies, student creativity and initiative) toward such a noteworthy cause. Keep up the great work!
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