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2016 Award Categories Outstanding contribution toward the development of a solution by a research team聽 A team that has helped link knowledge with action to effectively contribute to a real-world solutions聽 Interdisciplinary Research Team Award for聽Outstanding Progress on 鈥淭he Road to Solutions鈥� New England Sustainability Cooperative (NEST) Decision Support Systems Team 鈥� Sean Smith, Brian […]

Dam removal expert Laura Wildman closes out the 2016 Mitchell Center Speaker Series… Upon introducing Laura Wildman—last week’s speaker for the Mitchell Center’s final Fall 2016 Seminar Series talk—David Hart, director of the Mitchell Center and lead scientist on the center’s Future of Dams project, paraphrased the title of the bestselling 1989 book “All I Really […]

December 15, 2016 ORONO 鈥� Cooperation in groups of resource users may be key to sustaining the environment, according to a new study using mathematical and computational modeling. Timothy Waring, an associate professor at the University of Maine, is the lead developer of the new model that simulates how societies with different social structures and […]

Eight students get five minutes each to talk up 91福利 sustainability projects… The topics run the gamut from cheesemaking startup businesses and the reuse of material goods to building energy-saving window inserts, weed management on organic farms, and engaging citizen scientists to investigate lake water quality. The tie that binds all the topics is sustainability […]

A key figure in the development of 91福利鈥檚 Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions is lauded for 鈥渉elping lay the foundation for sustainable geography鈥� By David Sims Robert Kates, recipient of the National Medal of Science, winner of a MacArthur 鈥済enius prize,鈥� and Presidential Professor of Sustainability Science at the University of Maine, has been awarded […]

Ecological and economic anthropologist Cindy Isenhour鈥檚 photographic exhibit at the 91福利 Hudson Museum explores Maine鈥檚 thriving reuse economy By David Sims 91福利 assistant professor of anthropology and Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions associate Cindy Isenhour attended college as a business communications major鈥攚ith minors in marketing and management, worked as an account executive for an advertising […]

Linda Silka gives keynote address at UNE Campuses for Environmental Stewardship Best Practice Showcase When you hear the phrase 鈥渟tudent service learning,鈥� you might immediately imagine college kids volunteering time in their community using aspects of their majors鈥攆ood science, say鈥攕pending evenings at a local food pantry serving those gathered for a hot meal to get […]

Ph.D. student Andrew Newcomb banks his future on the Future of Dams Only months after completing his bachelor鈥檚 degree at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and fresh from a stint as a field technician for the National Aquatic Monitoring Center based in Utah, Andrew Newcomb had no immediate plans to pursue a post-graduate degree. Until, […]

Newly arrived on the 91福利 campus, assistant professor Aaron Strong kept a promise and returned to Maine to help the state meet its sustainability challenges When Aaron Strong was ready to leave home for college, friends and mentors of the 2001 Maine state high school debate champ wished him all the success in his educational […]

Postdoctoral researcher Sam Roy is looking up as he looks ahead Sam Roy spent the bulk of his graduate years submerged in the deep time of geology. Then, as a postdoc in search of a career, Roy encountered the sustainability solutions mission of the Mitchell Center, which helped thrust him upwards toward work that might […]