Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

Mitchell Center community members actively publish their research across a diverse range of academic journals. The following is a sample of recent papers by Mitchell Center faculty, students, and alumni. Source-sink behavioural dynamics limit institutional evolution in a group-structured society Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Timothy Waring, Guillaume St-Onge, Meredith Niles, Laura Kati Corlew, Matthew Dube, Stephanie Miller, […]

Bridie McGreavy, associate professor of environmental communication at the University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, received the J. Robert Cox Award in Environmental Communication & Civic Engagement for 2022 from the Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Read the full story on the College of Liberal […]

The University of Maine is one of five international sites of the 2022 Raising Indigenous Voices in Academia & Society (RIVAS) conference, acknowledging the contributions of Indigenous Peoples globally, Oct. 20–25. RIVAS supports the scholarship of Indigenous academics and speakers whose cultures help shape linguistics, archeology, cultural anthropology and other academic disciplines, and also acknowledges […]

Investigating a possible method for eliminating the toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, is the objective of a new National Science Foundation-funded study led by Onur Apul at the University of Maine. NSF awarded $250,000 for Apul, an assistant professor of environmental engineering and Mitchell Center faculty fellow, to research how to remove PFAS, […]

We’ve had the privilege of working with Tony both as a graduate student and researcher for many years. We are excited to see him start his new position as Assistant Professor of Native American Food Systems at UMaine. The University of Maine Native American Programs and UMaine Extension have hired Tony Sutton as assistant professor […]

The Mount Desert Islander shared that Susanne Lee, faculty fellow of the University of Maine’s Mitchell Center for Sustainability, will present about what can be done in the home to reduce food waste, what the necessary resources are to produce food and the impact of food waste on the environment. The event is at La […]

Darren Ranco, chair of Native American Programs, coordinator of Native American Research and Faculty Fellow at the Mitchell Center, was interviewed by Atlas Obscura for an article about the Indigenous origins of the clam bake. “I think there is a popular conception that [clam bakes] are a European adoption of indigenous traditions, a tradition that, […]

The Mitchell Center partially funded a study showing that bringing together academics and tourism developers on Mount Desert Island (MDI) is an effective way to identify climate change impacts and determine what can be done to address them given a community’s strengths, limitations and resources. Now, thanks to the work of a transdisciplinary group of […]

The University of Maine has joined a consortium of seven universities in the region to form the New England Center of Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases (NEWVEC). The project received a $10 million five-year award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), $694,363 of which was awarded to UMaine. Allison Gardner, assistant professor of […]

In an article about a Brunswick campaign to promote how food waste recycling could help residents save both dollars and the environment, the Times Record interviewed Susanne Lee, faculty fellow at the University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, about the benefits of keeping food waste out of landfills. “There’s a […]