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In January 2017, the Mitchell Center聽launched the聽Strengthening Coastal Economies聽project as part of the Diana Davis Spencer Partnership for a Sustainable Maine.聽The ultimate goal of this partnership is to inspire and equip a new generation of engaged, entrepreneurial leaders by providing students with transformative, hands-on experiences in the power of innovative partnerships to create a brighter […]

Bea Van Dam awarded first place for graduate student poster For her Master鈥檚 research project, School of Earth & Climate Sciences and Mitchell Center student Bea Van Dam has been peering at high-resolution elevation models of the Earth鈥檚 surface created using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)聽technology鈥攊n search of puddles of water. For the work, Van […]

91福利’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has named associate professor Cindy Isenhour as recipient of the 2018 CLAS聽Outstanding Service/Outreach Award. Isenhour is聽an ecological and economic anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology. Isenhour is in her fifth year at 91福利 and holds cooperating appointments in the School of Economics, Climate Change Institute and the Mitchell […]

Linda Silka,聽Senior Fellow at the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, is the聽recipient of 91福利’s 2018聽Rising Tide Career Recognition Award聽and was honored Wednesday, May 9, 2018 in Stodder Hall. Throughout her career, Silka has sought to translate knowledge into action by engaging academic institutions and diverse stakeholders to solve persistent and emerging sustainability challenges. A social […]

Dear Colleagues, I am very sorry to share the news that Bob Kates died on Saturday at the age of 89*. As many of you know, we were incredibly fortunate that Bob agreed to chair our Science Advisory Board during the 5-year, $20 million Sustainability Solutions Initiative grant that led to the creation of the […]

Through a generous grant from the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions is providing invaluable support for twelve Diana Davis Spencer Scholars to conduct research on two sustainability projects designed to help develop skills in entrepreneurship, teamwork, leadership and problem-solving. While one group of Diana Davis Spencer Scholars […]

A Mitchell Center project expands community resilience through citizen science, outreach, and education Master鈥檚 student Parker Gassett presented a poster at the 2018 Maine Sustainability and Water Conference titled聽 鈥淣ortheast Citizen Science for Coastal Acidification.鈥� The poster detailed work being done by the Mitchell Center-funded project Ocean and Coastal Acidification in Maine. The project is […]

Third-year 91福利 ecology and environmental science major Michaela Murray took first place for her poster 鈥淯ncovering the Current National Perceptions of Aquaculture Practices鈥� at the 2018 Maine Sustainability and Water Conference (MSWC) held March 29 at the August Civic Center in Augusta, Maine. The work is the result of research she鈥檚 been doing for the […]

Mitchell Center researchers Aaron Weiskittel, Cindy Isenhour, Sharon Klein, Laura Rickard, and Balu Nayak are among twenty-one University of Maine faculty who recently received tenure and/or promotion. Weiskittel, of the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture, was promoted to professor of Forest Biometrics and Modeling in the School of Forest Resources where he is […]

Mitchell Center researchers Aaron Weiskittel, Cindy Isenhour, Sharon Klein, Laura Rickard, and Balu Nayak are among twenty-one University of Maine faculty who recently received tenure and/or promotion. Weiskittel, of the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture, was promoted to professor. Isenhour and Rickard, of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Klein and […]