{"id":14274,"date":"2017-12-18T13:43:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T18:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=14274"},"modified":"2017-12-18T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T18:45:19","slug":"mitchell-center-2017-sustainability-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2017\/12\/18\/mitchell-center-2017-sustainability-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Center 2017 Sustainability Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitchell Center Sustainability Awards are presented annually and are designed to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of Mitchell Center members, researchers, students and external stakeholders who have helped advance the values and principles at the heart of the Mitchell Center\u2019s stakeholder-engaged, solutions-focused, interdisciplinary projects and partnerships.<\/p>\n

The 2017 Sustainability Award winners were announced recently as the end of the spring semester neared.<\/p>\n

Outstanding progress on \u201cThe Road to Solutions\u201d by a research team<\/h4>\n

Sam Roy and the Future of Dams Team<\/em>
\nFor work on the NEST Future of Dams<\/a><\/em> project<\/p>\n

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Outstanding mentorship of a student in sustainability research
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Cindy Isenhour<\/a>, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow<\/em>
\nFor mentorship of students on the Materials Management<\/em><\/a> project<\/p>\n

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Cindy Isenhour accepts the 2107 Sustainability Award for Mentorship of Students from Mitchell Center Director David Hart.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Outstanding contribution to sustainability research by a graduate student<\/h4>\n

Sonja Birthisel<\/em>
\nFor work on the Improving Weed Management on Organic Farms<\/em><\/a> project<\/p>\n

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Sonja Birthisel accepts the 2017 Sustainability Award for Outstanding Contribution to Sustainability Research by a Graduate Student<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Outstanding Contribution by an external partner on \u201cThe Road to Solutions\u201d<\/h4>\n

Glen Melvin and the Medomak Taskforce<\/em>
\n<\/strong>For work on the Strengthening Coastal Economies<\/em><\/a> project<\/p>\n

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Glen Melvin accepts the 2017 Sustainability Award for Outstanding Contribution by an External Partner on \u201cThe Road to Solutions\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Outstanding contribution to sustainability research by an undergraduate student<\/h4>\n

Shantel Neptune<\/em>
\n<\/em><\/strong>For work on the NEST Future of Dams<\/em><\/a> project
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Shantel Neptune accepts the 2107 Mitchell Center Award for Outstanding Contribution to Sustainability Research by an Undergraduate Student<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Past Sustainability Award winners can be viewed\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mitchell Center Sustainability Awards are presented annually and are designed to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of Mitchell Center members, researchers, students and external stakeholders who have helped advance the values and principles at the heart of the Mitchell Center\u2019s stakeholder-engaged, solutions-focused, interdisciplinary projects and partnerships. The 2017 Sustainability Award winners were announced recently as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":963,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"3","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14274"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14292,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274\/revisions\/14292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}