{"id":2105,"date":"2012-12-14T10:57:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T15:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/sustainabilitysolutions\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2025-01-24T09:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:21:28","slug":"leadership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Director, Senator George J. Mitchell Center<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/david-hart\/\">David Hart <\/a>is the Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. He is also a professor with the School of Biology &amp; Ecology at UMaine.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/leadership-council\/\">Leadership Council<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>We are incredibly fortunate to benefit from the expertise, experience, passion, and determination of eight faculty who work on a wide range of sustainability challenges and serve on our Leadership Council. Their expertise spans the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering and humanities, and they represent eight different UMaine departments and schools as well as three different colleges. Individually and collectively, they are an invaluable source of ideas and energy as we work to strengthen the Mitchell Center\u2019s diverse partnerships and support our faculty and students.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/advisory-board\/\">Mitchell Center Advisory Board<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The Mitchell Center has established an <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/advisory-board\/\">Advisory Board<\/a> to help increase the impact of its programs and partnerships. Advisory Board members play important roles that increase the success of the Mitchell Center\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<h2>Presidential Professor of Sustainability Science, UMaine<\/h2>\n<h3>Robert Kates<br \/>\nJanuary 31, 1929 &#8211; April 21, 2018<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15474 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/04\/Bob-Kates_sm-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Kates\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/04\/Bob-Kates_sm-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/04\/Bob-Kates_sm-105x98.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/04\/Bob-Kates_sm-317x295.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/04\/Bob-Kates_sm-423x394.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/04\/Bob-Kates_sm-634x590.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/04\/Bob-Kates_sm.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/>We were very sorry to lose Bob Kates, Presidential Professor of Sustainability Science, who died on April 29, 2018 at the age of 89. We were incredibly fortunate that he agreed to chair our Science Advisory Board during the 5-year, $20 million Sustainability Solutions Initiative grant that led to the creation of the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t have the pleasure of getting to know Bob, here are a few links that will help you learn a bit more about his remarkable story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2018\/04\/23\/remembering-bob-kates\/\">tribute to Bob<\/a> by Mitchell Center Director David Hart<\/li>\n<li>A favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/about\/people\/leadership\/robert-kates\/\">short biography<\/a>, written by Kim Ridley<\/li>\n<li>A wonderful interview by Bridie McGreavy in <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu\/mpr\/vol21\/iss1\/5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maine Policy Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/video.mainepublic.org\/video\/2365082712\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">episode of Maine Public\u2019s \u201cSustainable Maine\u201d series<\/a> about a Sustainability Solutions Initiative project focused on culverts and climate change, which features interviews with Bob and Shaleen Jain<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rwkates.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bob\u2019s personal website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An obituary for Bob can be found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/obituaries.bangordailynews.com\/obituary\/robert-kates-1929-2018-1057279836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bangor Daily News<\/a>. We are grateful to his family for setting up the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/umainefoundation.org\/memorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert W. Kates Fund for Creative Graduate Studies<\/a> to benefit the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine. This fund will foster continuing work regarding Bob\u2019s quest, \u201cWhat is, and ought to be, the human use of the earth?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director, Senator George J. Mitchell Center David Hart is the Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. He is also a professor with the School of Biology &amp; Ecology at UMaine. 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