CENTER FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Why Center for Sustainability and the Environment
at the Colleges of the Fenway?

Colleges of the Fenway is committed to providing excellence in environmental science education. The Center for Sustainability at COF offers unique opportunities for you to use the many specialized state-of-the-art laboratories and facility resources located within the COF system. Over 15 full-time faculty with expertise in environmental science specialty areas teach at the six colleges.

Recent Events

2012 Colleges of the Fenway

”Preserving Urban Waterways for the Future:

An Interdisciplinary Approach”

Date: April 24, 2012

Time: 4:00-7:30 PM

Location: Wheelock College-Brookline Campus

43 Hawes Street

Brookine, MA

Colleges of the Fenway 6th Annual Muddy River Symposium
2012 Muddy River Symposium will address the preservation of urban waterways.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Urban infrastructure planning Urban ecology

Habitat Environmental remediation

Water chemistry Environmental education

Project planning (including design and permitting) Transportation

Stormwater management Engineering

Environmental design and architecture Water chemistry

If you have any questions, please contact:

Ellen Faszewski- efaszewski@wheelock.edu

Henderson Pritchard - pritchardh@wit.edu

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Members of the COF Center for Sustainability and the Environment Attend National Council for Science and the Environment’s 12th National Conference: Environment and Security. Click here for article.

Another Teach-In, focused on natural pharmaceuticals and personal products, is planned for the spring of 2012.

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2012 Simmons Travel Course

Explore Iceland-May 14-June 3

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