Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions

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 […]

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 […]