Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

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 […]

On July 19, Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow Rachel Schattman told a Congressional committee about successful efforts led by UMaine to understand and support farmers to adopt sustainable practices that will make their small businesses and our nation’s food supply more resilient for the future. Schattman, an assistant professor of sustainable agriculture in the School of […]

Interested community members are invited to join researchers and local students at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center for a conversation about emerging results of an ongoing community science program in the Damariscotta River estuary. The conversation will focus on the results from the first full year of the community science program studying shellfish […]

Mitchell Center Senior Fellow Linda Silka will moderate a SPSSI UN panel on The Challenges of Data Disaggregation to Eliminate Systemic Racism and Related Discriminations in the Implementation of the SDGs and Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic on Thursday July 14, 2022. SPSSI and APA, in partnership with missions to the United Nations (UN), nongovernmental […]

Michell Center faculty fellows Michael Haedicke, associate professor of sociology, and Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News about how Maine needs to do more than ban the agricultural use of wastewater sludge to limit people’s exposure to PFAS. Haedicke and MacRae explained that […]

In a recent article, Rachel Schattman, a University of Maine assistant professor of sustainable agriculture and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, spoke with Centralmaine.com about McCain Foods’ plan to power 50% of its Easton, Maine potato processing plant with five community solar gardens. The effort is part of an overall attempt to completely power all of […]

A June presentation at Maine Audubon Society’s Gilsland Farm in Falmouth by John Daigle and his Ph.D. students was featured in an article in Portland Press Herald and Centralmaine.com. Daigle is a professor in the School of Forest Resources and a Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow. The article, about the threats the emerald ash borer poses […]

Winter cold may not be what’s keeping ticks from spreading north in Maine, a new University of Maine study co-authored by Allison Gardner finds. Gardner is an assistant professor of arthropod vector biology and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow. The research shows that blacklegged tick nymphs are able to survive inhospitably cold winter temperatures with insulation […]