Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

UMaine 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 New England Sustainability Consortium project work, Kathleen Bell of the UMaine School of Economics, her master’s student Abigal Kaminski, and Keri Kaczor of UMaine Cooperative Extension recently attended the 2016 EPA Recreational Waters Conference in Washington, D.C. where Kaminski presented a poster titled “An Economic Evaluation of Safety Information on Coastal Beaches.” Read […]

Getting UMaine to commit to 20 percent “real food” by 2020 is a challenge for undergraduates UMaine 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—the dinner table, it could be said. As a member of the  Honors College Sustainable […]

UMaine’s Sharon Klein tracks the rise of community solar  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’s degree in environmental science. But it wasn’t until Klein was teaching a high school “environmental systems” course […]

Had high school senior Brianne Suldovsky not encountered the novel “Sophie’s World” in her Advance Placement English class, she likely would not be heading off to the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center for a postdoctoral fellowship in the Science of Science Communication. The book details events as a 14-year-old Norwegian girl corresponds with […]

Linda Silka’s transformation from a conventional social and community psychologist into the interdisciplinary, bridge-building and problem-solving role she fills at the Mitchell Center began in 1994 at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. “I started out doing straight social psychology research and teaching first-year general psychology students at UMass Lowell,” Silka says. “That’s all I knew how […]

The Maine Science Festival included a Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions session on the components and complexities of Maine’s solid waste stream On Friday, March 18 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor, the three-day 2016 Maine Science Festival got underway as hordes of students from around the state took part in numerous, diverse exhibits […]

Eva Weitman has learned a lot about reading the news — and a lot about shellfish — over the past few months. The 21-year-old University of Maine environmental science major has been working with doctoral candidate Brianne Suldovsky on a research project looking at media coverage of Maine and New Hampshire’s shellfish industry to get […]

Brett Gerard, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences, has been selected for the Michael J. Eckardt Dissertation Fellowship Award for the 2016 – 2017 academic year in recognition of his outstanding academic performance. Working with the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, Gerard’s research examines the characteristics and […]

For Travis Blackmer, the summer of 2011 was a summer of garbage. And it changed his life. While classmates at the University of Maine were waiting tables, pounding nails, or painting houses to make tuition money, the 20-year old undergrad was pawing through trash. Tons and tons of trash. But he didn’t really mind. After […]