2023 | IGC Reuseful
IGC Capstone Project | Interfaces of Global Change
IGC Reuseful
Student Members:
- Meg Harris, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Victoria Hymel, School of Public and International Affairs
- Jay Margolis, Biological Sciences
- Elizabeth Tarimo, Biological Sciences
- Mona Abadian, Sustainable Biomaterials
Faculty Mentors:
- Dr. Jennifer Russell, Sustainable Biomaterials
For this project, the group facilitated and hosted several events that encouraged sustainability, creativity, and recreation in the community. IGC Fellows created a space for creativity and community within the graduate school, especially the IGC, while also educating students about the actual, quantitative environmental benefits of reuse, repair, and creative upcycling sustainability. They made sustainability principles accessible and transformed them into hands-on, creative activities. IGC Reuseful hosted meetings to engage interested individuals and planned outreach events in the community and practiced upcycling techniques. Their two principal events were, first, coordinating with a time lending organization to donate their skills upcycling and repairing clothing and, second, hosting local educational workshops about the importance of sustainability and easy upcycling techniques.
The Interfaces of Global Change IGEP provides PhD students with a unique intellectual focus and training.
Each IGC Fellow gains depth in their specific scientific area of expertise (e.g. biology or engineering), while simultaneously gaining breadth in the multifaceted realm of global change and the science-policy interface.
