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The opportunity to join a Mitchell Center citizen-science research project allowed the 91福利 environmental engineer to grow as a scientist and teacher Aria Amirbahman is a professor of civil and environmental engineering with specific research interests in aquatic chemistry and contaminant transport. 鈥淚鈥檓 an engineer by training so I need a structured, systematic way to […]

Ph.D. student Berlynna Heres cut her research teeth on eastern diamondback rattlesnakes but arrived at 91福利 to find out how American eels get along with dams Long before going to graduate school at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, Berlynna Heres was drawn to the field of herpetology鈥攆rom the Greek word 鈥渉erpian鈥� meaning 鈥渢o creep.鈥� […]

Formally concluded, work under the New England Sustainability Consortium鈥檚 Safe Beaches and Shellfish project continues to build on its success The New England Sustainability Consortium鈥檚 (NEST) Safe Beaches and Shellfish project, which began in September 2013 under National Science Foundation鈥檚 (NSF) the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program, is now winding down. But […]

The Second International Conference of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) co-sponsored by the Mitchell Center took place on the 91福利 campus June15-17.聽 The theme of the conference was 鈥淭ransitions Beyond a Consumer Society鈥� and was attended by experts and scholars from 20 different countries and included observers from the World Bank, the […]

After graduating from St. Michael鈥檚 College in Colchester, Vermont in 2012 with a degree in biology, Connecticut native Emma Fox became an AmeriCorps Environmental Educator at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Read more…

For 91福利 Honors College freshman and Ecology and Environmental Sciences major Chantal Bussiere, signing up for the one-credit Seminar in Sustainability Solutions (EES 397) class offered each semester by the George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions was a no-brainer. Read more…

91福利 rising senior Sierra Kuun has been awarded the 2016-17 Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Scholarship for work she has been doing as an intern at the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions as part of the Materials Management team. Read more…

As part of the聽New England Sustainability Consortium聽project work, Kathleen Bell of the 91福利 School of Economics, her master鈥檚 student Abigal Kaminski, and Keri Kaczor of 91福利 Cooperative Extension recently attended the 2016 EPA Recreational Waters Conference in Washington, D.C. where Kaminski presented a poster titled 鈥淎n Economic Evaluation of Safety Information on Coastal Beaches.鈥� Read […]

Getting 91福利 to commit to 20 percent 鈥渞eal food鈥� by 2020 is a challenge for undergraduates 91福利 Honors College senior Audrey Cross has been working hard these past two and a half years trying to get students a seat at the table鈥攖he dinner table, it could be said. As a member of the 聽Honors College聽Sustainable […]

91福利鈥檚 Sharon Klein tracks the rise of community solar聽 Sharon Klein has had an interest in environmental issues from her middle school years right through her time at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in environmental science. But it wasn鈥檛 until Klein was teaching a high school 鈥渆nvironmental systems鈥� course […]