The Partners in Development Foundation in Hono­lulu has received the Intergenerational Innovation Award from Generations United.

The award "honors an organization or program that has made an outstanding contribution to uniting the generations through creative or exemplary practice," according to a press release.

Generations United is based in Washington, D.C., and its mission is to "improve the lives of children, youth and older adults through intergenerational collaboration, public policies and programs."

» Robert Brewer will receive this year’s Graduate Student Research on Campus Sustainability Award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, the University of Hawaii has announced.

Brewer’sdoctoral dissertation is titled "Fostering Sustained Energy Behavior Change and Increasing Literacy in a Student Housing Energy Challenge." He developed his findings as part of the Kukui Cup project, an innovative energy challenge now in its third year at UH-Manoa, according to a press release.

"I’m honored to receive this award from AASHE, and also want to thank them for shining a spotlight on the importance of sustainability research in higher education," Brewer said. "I hope this award will make more people aware of the impressive, multidisciplinary research on sustainability going onthroughout the UHsystem."

The Kukui Cup is sponsored by the National Science Foundation; the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism; Hawaiʻi Energy; and the Center for Renewable Energy and Island Sustainability, Housing Services, Facilities Management, and Department of Information and Computer Sciences at UH-Manoa.