(back row, l-r): Kevin Izzo, Sturgis Sobin, Andy Irwin, Charles Van Rees (front row, l-r): Erin Brady, Lily Kunin, Maria Figliola, Melanie Bender, Ariella Cohen, Erica Hildebrand
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Melanie Bender
Major: Environmental Studies Minor: Government
Internship: Coast Guard Academy, New London CT and CT Department of Environmental Protection, Hartford, CT.
Senior Integrative Project: Lobstermen of Long Island Sound and the Struggle with Shell Disease.
Erin Brady
Majors: Government/Environmental Studies
Internship:The Chancellor’s Urban Education Leaders Internship Program (UELIP), Washington, D.C.
Senior Integrative Project: Closing the Achievement Gap with Ecological Literacy: An Examination of Environmentally Focused Charter Schools as Tools for Educational Reform.
Ariella Cohen
Major: Environmental Studies Minor: Economics
Internship: Assistance and Pollution Prevention Unit, EPA, Boston, MA
Senior Integrative Project: The Intersection of Affordable Housing and the Environment Through the Lens of Chapter 40B.
Maria Figliola
Major: Environmental Studies Minor: Art
Internship: Corporate Accountability International, Boston MA
Senior Integrative Project: Visual Communication in Climate Change.
Erica Hildebrand
Major: Biological Sciences
Internship: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA.
Senior Integrative Project: Differences in Community Composition of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea in Control and High Nitrogen Fertilizer Plots of the Great Sippewisset Marsh, Cape Cod, MA.
Andy Irwin
Majors: Environmental Studies
Internship: Cool Cities Campaign, Sierra Club, ME.
Senior Integrative Project: Challenges and Opportunities for Climate Change Resilience in Small Cities.
Kevin Izzo
Major: Environmental Studies Minor: Economics
Internship: Kilawatt Technologies, Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, Shelburne, VT.
Senior Integrative: A Study of Environmentally Sustainable Large Sporting Events.
Lily Kunin
Major: Economics
Internship: Calvert Social Investment Foundation, MD.
Senior Integrative Project: Renewable Energy: Discovering and Overcoming the Barriers in Rural Areas of Developing Countries.
Sturgis Sobin
Majors: Economics/Environmental Studies
Internship: Clark Construction Group, MD.
Senior Integrative Project: U.S. Green Building Policy and the Stimulus Package of 2009: Promoting Green Building in Absence of National Regulation.
Charles Van Rees
Major: Biological Sciences/ Environmental Studies Minor: Hispanic Studies
Internship : Gandoca Sea Turtle Conservation Project WIDECAST, Costa Rica.
Senior Integrative Project: Of Ethics and Ecosystems: A Bifocal Perspective on Biodiversity Conservation.