Student Research Fellowships in
Environment, Economics, and Politics

The Roberts Environmental Center is offering up to five research fellowships from the list below for CMC students in the fall 2012. The purpose of these research fellowships is to support, encourage, and expand the ongoing Environment, Economics, and Politics (EEP) research of CMC students. Any of the projects may be used as the basis for a thesis for graduating seniors, but all projects are available to CMC non-seniors as well. These competitive fellowships provide financial assistance for individual student research pertinent to current environmental and urban economics issues faced by the local community. The topics below were selected by City of Claremont Sustainability Coordinator and the City Sustainability Committee of Sustainable Claremont; technical assistance and initial guidance will be provided by this committee. Selection of winners will be made by the Roberts Environmental Center. Each project carries a student stipend of $1000, and a faculty stipend of $500. In the application, students must identify a Claremont Colleges faculty member willing to oversee the project. The final project report must be completed by April 1, 2013.

1) Existing Building Fellowship: This fellowship is designed to encourage and support student research on ideas on sustainable operation and maintenance of both City-owned and privately owned buildings in the City of Claremont. An additional travel stipend of up to $500 available for travel related to the proposed research project.

2) Sustainable Business Strategies Fellowship: This fellowship is designed to encourage and support student research on projects to explore strategies to incentivize business owners to be more sustainable. The recipient is required to conduct research under the supervision of, or in collaboration with, a CMC faculty member.

3) Greenhouse Gas Strategies Fellowship: This fellowship is designed to encourage and support student research on projects related to survey policies, practices, or actions by other municipal local governments and recommend feasible adoption of applicable strategies applicable to the City of Claremont.

4) Local Solar Initiative Fellowship: This fellowship is designed to encourage and support student research on projects related to the identification of the legal and economic barriers to community-based solar projects in California.

5) Solar Water Heating Fellowship: This fellowship is designed to encourage and support student research on projects related to the identification of the barriers preventing greater market adoption of this technology.

6) Return-on-Investment (ROI) on Green Buildings Fellowship: This fellowship is designed to encourage and support student research on projects related to the review of the current data on the ROI from investing up-front capital building cost on LEED rated buildings.

7) Electric and Neighborhood Electric Vehicle Fellowship: This fellowship is designed to encourage and support student research on exploring strategies on how the City of Claremont could incentivize the use of NEV’s.

Application
· The application must include an application form, a 2-page research proposal, a transcript (printout from CMC portal is sufficient), and a curriculum vitae. Application form can be downloaded online at: http://www.roberts.cmc.edu/PSI/2012Fellowship.docx
· Deadline Friday, October 5, 2012 at 5pm to the Roberts Environmental Center (W.M. Keck Science Center, Joint Science Department, 925 N. Mills Ave., Room 104.)
· If you have any questions, you may contact Elgeritte Adidjaja at 909-621-8698 or eadidjaja@cmc.edu.