Students (left to right) Katherine C. Rowe ’10, Katrina M. Ellison ’10, Joseph D. Roy-Mayhew ’08, and Matthew R. Zedler ’07 are all smiles after mtvU and General Electric surprised them with a $25,000 grant for winning the first-ever mtvU-GE ecomagination Challenge. Their proposal, “Biodiesel@MIT,” is an apparatus that can convert waste vegetable oil into biodiesel for the campus.

David M. Templeton—THE TECH

Students (left to right) Katherine C. Rowe ’10, Katrina M. Ellison ’10, Joseph D. Roy-Mayhew ’08, and Matthew R. Zedler ’07 are all smiles after mtvU and General Electric surprised them with a $25,000 grant for winning the first-ever mtvU-GE ecomagination Challenge. Their proposal, “Biodiesel@MIT,” is an apparatus that can convert waste vegetable oil into biodiesel for the campus. David M. Templeton—THE TECH