Internships and Fellowships
The Center emphasizes learning by doing. We engage in local and regional issues with and eye toward the transferability of ideas, looking not just at the science needed to solve our most pressing environmental problems, but also at the social implications of our work, the needs of our community, and the social or cultural acceptability of solutions to environmental issues.
The Center employs a number of workstudy students to collect recycling and compost on campus. Each student is also responsible for one project per semester designed to increase and promote recycling on campus, as well as reduce waste and encourage the use of reusable products.
Fall 2009 Interns
Brittani VanderWiele
Recycling Assistant
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Donna Weaver
Compost Assistant
dweaver2@washcoll.edu
Donna Weaver '11 helps promote campus sustainability by collecting and sorting the paper, cardboard, glass, cans, and plastic bottles with her fellow Recycling Assistants. She also has taken on the maintenance of the compost pile, which consists of unused food from Catering and the Dining Hall. She is currently working on biological and chemical testing of the compost with the purpose of generating optimal quality compost to be used in campus landscaping and possibly a campus vegetable garden in the future. Donna is a Biology major and enjoys reading, photography, yoga, jogging, and cycling with her dad and brother.
Devin Reilly
Recycling Assistant
dreilly2@washcoll.edu
Amanda Anastasia
Recycling Assistant
aanastasia2@washcoll.edu
Amanda Anastasia '13 works with the Center for Environment and Society as a Recycling Assistant. She helps promote campus sustainability by collecting and sorting the paper, cardboard, glass, cans, and plastic bottles with her fellow Recycling Assistants. She is passionate about the environment and about promoting the increase recycling and the decrease of unnecessary consumption of natural resources. She is planning on being an Environmental Studies major and is a member of the Sailing team.
DJ Llewellyn
Recycling Assistant
dllewellyn2@washcoll.edu
Jessica Brennan
Compost Assistant
jbrennan2@washcoll.edu
Jessica assists in the maintenance of compost on campus and writes for George Goes Green, the campus sustainability blog.
Ian Rushin
Recycling Assistant
irushin2@washcoll.edu