Sustainability News
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Jack Riffle ’12 was teaching in New York City when the reality of the climate crisis hit. It was something he’d recognized for years, but it was no longer something he could ignore.
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Andy Jian ’23 explores the question: what happens to the environment in a closed system?
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These two hockey goalies are gearing up to take on their master’s degrees. Sean Storr ’22 will be pursuing urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University. Gabrielle Venne ’22 will enroll at the University of Maine for a forest resources degree.
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What started as an endeavor to reduce unnecessary waste 15 years ago now provides five community organizations with sizable donations at the end of every spring semester.
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In their final days as Hamilton students, more than 200 members of the Class of 2022 planted nearly 500 trees in an effort to combat climate change and help the College achieve carbon neutrality by 2030.
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Assistant Professor of Biology Peter Guiden is working with Maddie Vavra ’23 and Becky Rosen ’22 to better understand the biology of trees that are native to Central New York. The trees grown in the science center greenhouse will eventually be planted on campus as part of the effort to conserve and restore biodiversity there.
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Hamilton is taking a major step toward addressing climate change by setting a new goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2030, 20 years earlier than its initial target of 2050.
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Ellie Sangree ’24 arrived for her first semester at Hamilton equipped with more than the usual college essentials; she came with a concept for an experiment. It involved eutrophication, which is when excessive nutrients, often from agricultural chemicals, taint a body of water. It’s a major cause of pollution in freshwater and marine ecosystems.
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Mian Osumi ’22 currently works as a social media intern for OmniFoods where her tasks include growing its Twitter audience. She will continue her work after graduation at the Hong Kong-based global company that began making plant-based pork for the Asian market.
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As an early-career geomorphologist who studies glaciers, polar climate, and climate change, Drew Christ ’11 wasn’t expecting to be in the spotlight. Then he began to research core sediment samples taken in the 1960s from beneath Greenland’s ice sheet.
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Brian Hansen
Director of Environmental Protection, Safety and Sustainability