New Mellon Award Funds Environmental Initiative

In spring 2009, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded St. Lawrence $800,000 for our Environmental Education Initiative for Active Learning, Research, and Advocacy. Over the next four years, this award will help faculty increase opportunities for students to experience and apply their learning about the environment in real world situations; develop interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaborations related to the study, sustainability, and protection of the environment; and work together to implement project activities, such as increased field study and advocacy activities, in environmentally-sensitive ways for short- and long-term benefit to the environment. In designing the proposed project, the St. Lawrence faculty team has set high expectations for both short-term and long-term outcomes that will be demonstrated by positive changes within the University curriculum, the lives of project participants, and the University's campus and local environment. 

 Please see the University's Green Pages for more information:  http://www.stlawu.edu/green/mellon-foundation-grant