Assistant Professor of Architecture John Quale is a member of an interdisciplinary faculty research team that received a grant to develop their proposal, "Energy Conservation for Comfortable Buildings: University Energy Demand Reduction." The program is funded by the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the VP's Office of Research. Working with Quale will be Ron Williams (SEAS), Paxton Marshall (SEAS) and Cheryl Gomez (UVA Facilities Management). The team is one of four to be selected from a pool of twelve that were submitted for consideration this year, and the average seed funding request was $30,000.