Lauren Bower

University of Dayton

Lauren Bower, a second year student at the University of Dayton, is an innovative leader passionate about applying her mechanical engineering skills to addressing environmental and social justice issues in our community. Her work is centered on a major landfill located in West Dayton, whose presence the community was powerless to stop. She is collaborating with a faculty mentor and community members to co-create a community enterprise that would use the landfill gas to power generators to produce off-grid electricity. The off-grid electricity is proposed to power bitcoin miners and an indoor farm, both of which will be community cooperatives. Currently, Lauren is working on the economic model to validate the worth of the enterprise. For the next two years, she will be working on the design of the cooperative organizations and continuing to build relationships to support the sustainability of the project.

Eric Spina
President
University of Dayton

Personal Statement

Growing up, paying it forward and finding ways to help others was always important to my parents and mentors. They taught me the power of action through participation in mission trips and volunteering. Starting college, I knew I wanted to get involved in groups focused on environmental action and service to make a difference. I began by getting involved in multiple sustainability groups on campus where I work on projects such as installing solar panels on nonprofits and participate in peer education programs that teach about environmental issues and their effect on different groups. I also joined a research project focused on using landfill gas to power a bitcoin server farm and an indoor farm. Through using the gas from this landfill to power the bitcoin and indoor farms the model aims to create jobs in the community and access to healthy food while cleaning up the landfill gas.

Lauren Bower
Mechanical Engineering : Class of May 2024
written 2022

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Amogh Bandekar, UNC Charlotte Karen De La Rosa De Alejandro, Universidad de Monterrey Jeromy Hunt, Jr., University of Central Arkansas Isabeau Tyndall, University of Central Florida Samantha Gove, University of Connecticut Lauren Bower, University of Dayton Ryan DeRosa, University of Delaware Kayla Mazariego, University of Houston-Downtown Kotomi Yokokura, University of Kentucky Drake Ingram, University of La Verne Katharine McDaid, University of Mary Washington Zoi Burns, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Fabrizio Darby, University of Miami Ben Leavitt, University of Michigan Sydney Drennen, University of Missouri-St. Louis Sophia Rodriquez, University of Montana Massimiliano Saitta, University of Nebraska at Omaha Kate Mathews, University of New Hampshire Grey Nebel, University of North Georgia Nixson Benitez, University of Northern Iowa Jessica Ford, University of Pennsylvania Nina Mennies, University of Pittsburgh Penny Hu, University of Richmond Shayla Rodriguez, University of San Diego Aaron Fontan, University of San Francisco Richard Bennett, University of South Carolina Beaufort Angela Maloney, University of Wisconsin-Madison Tess Dimler, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Zea Miller, UW Green Bay
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