The Graham Sustainability Institute recently accepted 25 undergraduate students into its 11-credit Sustainability Scholars Program.
The exclusive, interdisciplinary program allows participants to receive special access and funding for field-based experiences, participate in sustainability leadership skills building activities as a cohort, and earn a “Sustainability Scholars Certificate” from the Graham Institute upon completion.
The new scholars, who will start the program in Fall 2012, include the following students (listed alphabetically followed by their academic majors and school):
❙ Diana Bach, civil and environmental engineering, College of Engineering
❙ Hilary Bedeian, Program in the Environment (PitE), LSA
❙ Megan Biner, business administration, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
❙ Michelle Busch, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB), LSA
❙ Meeri Chang, business administration, Ross School
❙ Madeline Dunn, social theory and practice, Residential College, LSA
❙ Sam Facas, PitE & French, LSA
❙ Samantha Fischer, economics, LSA
❙ Katherine Globerson, anthropology, LSA
❙ Aaron Handley, PitE, LSA
❙ Hannah Heyman, PitE, LSA
❙ Talia Kula, social theory and practice, Residential College, LSA
❙ Patrick Lau, public policy/political science, LSA
❙ Jeffrey Lavine, business administration, Ross School
❙ Jamie Leasia, PitE, LSA
❙ Sylvia Lorenzini, marketing, Ross School
❙ Isabella Morrison, women’s studies/gender and health, LSA
❙ Elena Marie Pascual, international studies, LSA
❙ Marcella Pearl, business administration, Ross School
❙ William Rogers, psychology, LSA
❙ Hayley Sakwa, political science, LSA
❙ Chad Schram, pre-architecture, LSA
❙ Zoe Stahl, PitE, LSA
❙ Hannah Wolfson, psychology, LSA
❙ Theresa Zettner, history, LSA
“We are pleased to see such a variety of majors and academic interests represented in our new cohort of Sustainability Scholars,” says Graham Institute Education Director Mike Shriberg, who teaches the Sustainability and the Campus class, which is required for the program. “Today’s sustainability challenges demand a new generation of critical thinkers who can look at problems and opportunities from multiple perspectives.”
To learn more go to the Student Programs section of the Graham Institute website at www.graham.umich.edu.
