Students in UALR’s Sustainable Business Issues course offered by the College of Business’ MBA program are helping businesses to become more sustainable. A few examples:

• Charity Bennett of Hot Springs and Holly Smith of Alexander researched sustainable and green business certification programs across the nation, and made recommendations to the Sustainable Business Network of Central Arkansas regarding the design of their own certification program for the region’s businesses.

• Robert Airo of North Little Rock, Kyle Clem of Little Rock, Garima Lall of Aldie, Va., Heeral Patel of Hot Springs, Gueorgui Petrov of Bularia, David Stafford of Maumelle, and Jamie Tyler of Little Rock conducted research on sustainability among health care institutions and helped UAMS complete a self-study on hospital sustainability indicators using the Green Guide for Health Care. They presented their findings to UAMS administrators and staff and participated a statewide conference call for hospital administrators regarding the students’ industry research findings and the benefits of using the Green Guide for Health Care to improve hospital sustainability performance.

• Andrea Pitcock of Little Rock, Clarissa Purifoy of Camden, Patrick Sanders of Little Rock, Jesse Stovall of North Little Rock, and Samuel Walters of Petal, Miss., completed an analysis of the green cleaning standards within the top 15 industries in Arkansas. The students presented their findings to Razor Chemical Co., a local manufacturer of industrial green cleaning products.

• Students Shreyasi Dutta of India, Ryan Gibson, Elizabeth Hethera of West Palm Beach, Fla., Michelle Wise of Sheridan, and Nicholas Woodruff of Oxford, Ohio, completed a greenhouse gas inventory of UALR. The students assessed the University’s carbon footprint and identified the greenhouse gas emissions associated with various campus operations and activities.