Faculty Grant Winners Announced
The Tishman Environment and Design Center is happy to announce this year’s Faculty Support Grant Winners! Four outstanding faculty members received a grant from the Tishman Center to support their research and scholarship around challenges generated by the impacts of climate change and other environmental threats to community well-being and social justice.
These grants support interdisciplinary and collaborative research, creation of practice and service opportunities for students, as well as community engagement. Please join us in congratulating our newest round of recipients. Our recipients will share blog posts in the Spring on the progress of their projects. Stay tuned!
Carolin Mees
Adjunct Professor at Parsons
Title of Project:
Community-based, Participatory and Sustainable Design in Public Open Space
Donna Maione
Lecturer on Sustainable Systems at Parsons
Title of Project:
Redesigning Communities: An Exploration of Mending and Reuse of Textile Waste
Davida Smyth
Associate Professor of Biology at The New School
Title of Project:
Conducting Sustainable Science When Pathogens Take the Stage
Oliver Kellhammer
Lecturer on Sustainable Systems at Parsons
Title of Project:
Community Composting of Styrofoam Using Mealworms