The Seattle U. Project On The Environment And Recycling

Jennifer Sorensen, PhD

[Faculty leader]. Through SUPER, students apply their chemical and scientific knowledge to environmental problems impacting the campus community. For example, we developed a suite of tests to perform process monitoring of Seattle University's on-site composting facility. Student projects have studied such diverse topics as mercury recycling in fluorescent light bulbs and compostable cups and plates. Outside of the classroom, Sorensen was one of two faculty mentors to a novel team project that included graduate business students and an undergraduate environmental science student. Their research led to a community education and marketing plan for a low-technology water filtration system used in Nicaragua. At university level, Dr. Sorensen worked with a team of colleagues from across the university to conceptualize and launch the Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability, Seattle University’s first “Center for Excellence.” The CEJS is now an intellectual hub of student and faculty scholarship across academic disciplines

Sorensen, J.

Seattle University - Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability