Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

Jared Entwistle, a UMaine master’s student in ecology and environmental sciences and business administration, recently authored a column on reusable packaging in the Bangor Daily News. Entwistle is a member of the Mitchell Center’s Materials Management team and the Scholars Strategy Network, a group of publicly engaged scholars from colleges and universities across the country. […]

As strawberry season began this year, WVII television interviewed Rachel Schattman about research she and her team are conducting on how strawberries in Maine may be affected by shifting precipitation patterns with climate change. View the segment here. Schattman is assistant professor of sustainable agriculture at UMaine and a Mitchell Center faculty fellow. She studies […]

Mitchell Center members share a passion for tackling complex sustainability problems that matter to people and communities through collaboration with diverse stakeholders and across many different areas of expertise. They come from a wide range of disciplines–from engineering and economics to fisheries and agriculture to business and communication–and take an interdisciplinary approach because that’s what’s […]

In May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced $92.2 million in competitive grant funding through the 2018 Farm Bill’s Local Agriculture Market Program (LAMP), as part of a USDA initiative to assist food producers affected by the pandemic. Funding included $77 million for the Farmers Market Promotion Program and Local Food Promotion Program. Both […]

Following on the heels of the Maine Reuse Summit held on June 9, UMaine researchers Cynthia Isenhour and Brieanne Berry have been featured in recent media coverage on reuse in Maine. Isenhour is associate professor in the Dept. of Anthropology and the Climate Change Institute and a Mitchell Center faculty fellow. Berry is pursuing a […]

In a new study, UMaine researchers Tim Waring and Zach Wood found that culture helps humans adapt to their environment and overcome challenges better and faster than genetics. “In the very long term, we suggest that humans are evolving from individual genetic organisms to cultural groups which function as superorganisms, similar to ant colonies and […]

Sandra De Urioste-Stone, associate professor of nature-based tourism in the School of Forest Resources and Mitchell Center faculty fellow, has been named Assistant Vice President for Research at UMaine. De Urioste-Stone’s collaborative work has contributed to more than $9 million in external and internal research grants, including funding for the creation of the National Science […]

Sarah Risley, a UMaine graduate student in the School of Marine Sciences who is based at the Darling Marine Center, will lead a team of undergraduate and high school students on a new project funded by the Mitchell Center. The team will record the number, type and size of shellfish species at several sites along […]

Mitchell Center members share a passion for tackling complex sustainability problems that matter to people and communities through collaboration with diverse stakeholders and across many different areas of expertise. They come from a wide range of disciplines—from engineering and economics to fisheries and agriculture to business and communication—and take an interdisciplinary approach because that’s what’s […]

A June 2 article in UMaine News focuses on the work of Mitchell Center researchers who are helping identify sources of and management strategies for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). In response to concerns raised by many different stakeholders, the interdisciplinary team of scientists is gathering and documenting knowledge of where PFAS are in Maine […]