{"id":30908,"date":"2023-07-25T17:52:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T17:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.engr.uconn.edu\/?p=30908"},"modified":"2024-04-04T02:41:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T06:41:25","slug":"uconn-and-bridgeport-partner-for-greener-schools-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/07\/uconn-and-bridgeport-partner-for-greener-schools-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn and Bridgeport Partner for Greener Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Connecticut School of Engineering and Bridgeport Connecticut Public Schools have joined together to implement comprehensive energy efficiency and renewable projects at two Bridgeport schools through the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Office of State and Community Energy Programs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/scep\/renew-americas-schools\">The project<\/a>\u00a0was one of only 24 projects selected nationwide after over 1,000 concept papers were submitted early in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConnecticut\u2019s flagship state university is honored to be part of this effort,\u201d George M. Bollas, director of UConn\u2019s Pratt &amp; Whitney Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering, says. \u201cThe design of smart, healthy, and resilient schools for the low-income Connecticut environmental justice community in Bridgeport is well aligned with the mission of the University to support the growth and prosperity of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/07\/uconn-and-bridgeport-partner-for-greener-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more @ UConn Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;A great opportunity to strengthen our green energy and climate change research&#8217; while supporting Connecticut communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":212063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[43],"class_list":["post-30908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 07:27:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212064,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30908\/revisions\/212064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/212063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30908"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=30908"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}