J E F F E R S O N S C H O L A R S F O U N D A T I O N

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2011 jefferson public citizens award
Seventy-six University of Virginia undergraduates have received Jefferson
Public Citizen Awards, which will assist them in conducting public service
projects during the 2012-2013 academic year. This is the fourth year of the
JPC program, which was identified as a University priority by the Commission
for the Future of the University and approved by the Board of Visitors
in October 2008. This year, there are twenty projects, twelve faculty advisors
and fourteen graduate mentors. Four Jefferson Scholars were among
that group of grant recipients:
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Scholar in JPC Group
Leah Coates
Scholar in JPC Group
Lacey Williams,
Carolyn Pelnik
Scholar in JPC Group
Adam Joseph
Project
ecoMOD Project/
Southside Outreach
The mission of Southside Outreach is to
provide affordable, safe, decent, and sanitary
housing for low-to-moderate income
persons. This JPC team will help Southside
Outreach improve the energy efficiency
of their current homes by designing and
implementing a monitoring system and by
conducting a post-occupancy evaluation
survey of residents. They will educate
homeowners on ways to decrease their
current home energy use by creating a
homeowner’s manual.
Project
GIS Mapping of Water Sanitation
and Health Project in Lake
Atitlan, Guatemala
This JPC project seeks to address how a
geographic information system (GIS) can
best be used to connect organizations and
categorize data related to water health
and sanitation in the Lake Atitlan Basin.
Working remotely from the United States
and using GIS mapping, the team aims
to collect and organize data pertaining to
water projects, filter installations, water
sources, non-governmental organizations,
and health statistics in a way that facilitates
collaboration among agencies in the Lake
Atitlan region of Guatemala.
Project
Rocket Power: Accessing Energy
Poverty in Rural South Africa
Rocket stoves are high-efficiency wood
burning brick stoves that reduce health
concerns such as respitory illness caused
by traditional open cooking fires. This JPC
group will assess how existing rocket stoves
have impacted the local community from
financial, social, and environmental perspectives.
They plan to use this information
in collaboration with local entrepeneurs and
university students to construct three new
stoves for the community.
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