Environmental Science and Design Research Institute
For anyone who has traveled to ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ over the summer, the Summit Street construction project has been quite an inconvenience for drivers. For Lauren Kinsman-Costello, though, it’s an opportunity to make the campus more ecologically friendly and establish trends in biology, chemistry, geology and ecology.
What some call a sustainable answer to urban flaws, Anna Droz calls research. As a biological sciences doctoral student in ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ’s College of Arts and Sciences, Droz’s curiosity has developed into a passion, maybe even an obsession, to discover the best vegetative roof combinations with the optimal plants, soil, and micro-organism communities.
Like a financial analyst who pores over numbers to predict the next big trend, Joseph Ortiz, Professor of Geology at ¶¶MÅ®ÆÍ, is an expert at crunching earth data.