W. K. Kellogg Foundation Honors Project Co-led by Jun Wu

The community-university partnership ¡Plo-NO! Santa Ana! (Lead-Free Santa Ana!), co-led by AirUCI professor Jun Wu, was honored by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation as a 2025 Exemplary Project through its Community Engagement Scholarship Awards program.  The award recognizes "four-year public universities that have made exemplary strides to become more closely and productively engaged with communities through their teaching/learning, discovery, and service activities."  ¡Plo-NO! Santa Ana! "engaged youth, residents, and students in systematically collecting over 1,500 soil samples across the City of Santa Ana, mapping soil lead concentrations in each Census tract, investigating potential sources of contamination, and organizing information sessions and advocacy campaigns to press for lead remediation."  Read the article.