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Over 40 majors in undergraduate, graduate, and professional education programs
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A rich tradition in Catholic education for more than a hundred years.
A leading expert on ocean acidification, Mark Green, a professor of environmental science at Saint Joseph’s College, has been selected to join a Maine commission to study ocean acidification’s impact on shellfish. The Maine Ocean Acidification Commission will meet throughout the year and is expected to complete its work by December 5, 2014, reporting their [...]
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation, Maine Sunday Telegram, and SOURCE have announced 12 recipients of the $100,000 Maine Local Foods grants program, and one of the recipients is Saint Joseph’s College’s Pearson’s Town Farm. The grants program, launched in April 2014, was designed to support nonprofit local food distribution organizations in Maine—including farmer’s markets, food [...]
Aquaponics: addressing marine concerns, sparking career interest According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), doubling aquaculture in the United States could create over 50,000 jobs and a billion dollar industry. Environmental science professor Dr. Mark Green’s class MS 360–Aquaculture: Science and Methods might help to make that happen. “The wild-caught seafood industry is [...]
Last year, the Portland Water District (PWD) announced the creation of a grant program that offers free water bottle filling fountains to local entities. Twenty-six applications for grants were received, and the Board of Trustees awarded four water bottle filling stations to: Saint Joseph’s College (Standish), YMCA (Portland), Portland Transit Authority (Portland), and Greely High School [...]
Before this summer, Saint Joseph’s used a national vendor, Bon Appétit, for its meal services. Now, the College has taken the food service operation in-house, and things are getting much more in tune with the local character. The result is Pearson’s Café. Able to make more decisions that reflect the values of the College and [...]
This fall, the College hosts its first ever Community and Sustainability Engaged Scholarship (CASE) recipients, who will pursue service and leadership skills through a curriculum that emphasizes academics and community engagement. These first-year students will participate in workshops, seminars and off-campus community projects – all directed toward topics in sustainability and community building. “We are [...]
In a classic, against-all-odds David vs. Goliath battle, America’s marginalized farm workers formed a successful union because they won the hearts and minds of the American consumer. In that fight for social justice, where countless volunteers made victory possible, one of them was one of our own. “He is my Martin Luther King,” says Pauline [...]
Learning ecology by experiencing ecology During May semester, natural sciences professor Johan Erikson took seven students out to explore the ecology of the Gulf of Maine by kayak. For three weeks, they investigated the “confluence of oceanographic, ecological, biological, geological, and chemical processes” that have led to one of the most biologically productive regions of [...]
Dr. Mark Green knows the tiniest marine organisms can tell us a lot. As carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have climbed steadily – making the ocean more acidic in the process – he was the first scientist to prove tiny juvenile clams were dying primarily because their shells were dissolving in less alkaline conditions. [...]
Campus farm turns four-season Can peas really grow in the winter in Maine? They did at Saint Joseph’s, where farm manager Michial Russell and his team worked hard to preserve life on the farm, even if it meant keeping an indoor “secret garden” and shoveling their way to the outdoor greenhouses. Russell and his crew [...]
