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Stephanie Welcomer and Mario Teisl have been named interim deans for the next fiscal year, as reported by Uº£½ÇÉçÇø News. Stephanie is professor of management in the º£½ÇÉçÇø Business School and was the team leader for the Mitchell Center’s Cheesemaking in º£½ÇÉçÇø project. She will serve as interim dean for the Honors College next year. […]

A paper by Cindy Isenhour and Brie Berry, members of the Mitchell Center’s Materials Management team, was published on April 27 in the journal Economic Anthropology. Cindy is an associate professor of anthropology at Uº£½ÇÉçÇø and a Mitchell Center faculty fellow, and Brie is a doctoral student in anthropology and environmental policy. Both work on research […]

Uº£½ÇÉçÇø News reported on May 11 that Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and Mitchell Center faculty fellow, was one of three Uº£½ÇÉçÇø faculty to receive Presidential Awards this spring. Jean is part of the Mitchell Center’s Materials Management Team where she leads a project researching the risk of contaminants when recovering […]

The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions is seeking a Graduate Research Assistant (RA) to assist with an evaluation of equity issues for the º£½ÇÉçÇø Climate Council. This is a short-term position starting in mid-June and ending in mid-September 2020 with a stipend of $1,917 per month (20 hours/week). The RA will be […]

A recent article by Mitchell Center Director David Hart and Senior Fellow Linda Silka tells the story of the decade-long effort to grow Uº£½ÇÉçÇø’s capacities in stakeholder-engaged, solutions-driven, interdisciplinary research. The invited article appears in Issues in Science and Technology, the policy forum of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. “Rebuilding the Ivory […]

Alice Kelley, a geoarchaeologist in Uº£½ÇÉçÇø’s Climate Change Institute and Department of Earth and Climate Sciences, and Bonnie Newsom, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, recently published articles in a special feature of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in collaboration with several other researchers, as reported by Uº£½ÇÉçÇø News on April […]

Sara McBride, a master’s student in the Ecology and Environmental Sciences Program whose research on tick-borne disease ecology is part of a project led by Sandra De Urioste-Stone and Allison Gardner, has received a 2020 Edith Patch Award. McBride’s research integrates fieldwork, pathogen testing, and spatial analysis and she has created a risk map for […]

For many graduate students, one of the most important milestones in their studies is the presentation of a thesis or dissertation on their research. During the past several weeks, two graduate students working on Mitchell Center projects have successfully defended their doctoral dissertations, and one successfully defended her master’s thesis. On April 1, Emma Fox, […]

As ticks are on the rise in º£½ÇÉçÇø, a Uº£½ÇÉçÇø project is investigating how to better protect º£½ÇÉçÇø’s landowners, forest workers, and recreationists from tick-borne diseases. The º£½ÇÉçÇø Forest Tick Survey is a multi-year, citizen-science project researching how forest management practices, such as if and when timber is harvested, affect the incidence of ticks and […]

Uº£½ÇÉçÇø News reported April 1 on a new project by Adam Daigneault, Mitchell Center faculty fellow, and Uº£½ÇÉçÇø colleagues that focuses on community resilience in northern border towns. These communities often rely heavily on forestry and forest products and can be rocked by mill closures, environmental shifts, and other changes. Daigneault’s work in the Katahdin […]