Undergraduate student Blessing Masanga places second at 2026 Midwest Climate Collaborative Summit

Blessing Masanga, a first-year Case Western Reserve University computer science student, was honored with a second-place poster competition award at the 2026 Midwest Climate Collaborative Summit. 

The award recognizes her poster presentation titled “Departmental footprint: Redefining sustainability in higher education settings through carbon footprint tracking,” which she conducted with the Office of Energy and Sustainability.

Masanga worked on this project with PhD candidate Rishabh Kundu and Chair Alp Sehirlioglu, PhD, both of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Case School of Engineering.