Global STEWARDS Fellows publish in the Science of the Total Environment
UMD Global STEWARDS Fellows Thejaswini Pamuru and Jennifer Morash recently published their dissertation research work in an article in the Science of the Total Environment investigating the efficacy of organic amendments in promoting turf coverage, improving soil and protecting water quality. Read their publication here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969724007885?dgcid=coauthor#s0145
Jennifer Morash
Global STEWARDS Fellow Thejaswini Pamuru, wins Compost Research and Education Foundation Scholarship
Posted on July 13, 2023
The Compost Research & Education Foundation awarded Global STEWARDS Fellow Sai Pamuru an annual scholarship to assist with her compost research project. Read more about Sai’s award here: https://compostfoundation.org/Research/University-Scholarships
Global STEWARDS Fellows in publications!
Posted on January 26, 2023
Please check out our interdisciplinary teamwork by Guangxiao Hu, Nora Hamovit and Kristen Croft published in the PNAS journal. Read their publication here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2123533119
Guangxiao Hu
Nora Hamovit
Global STEWARDS cross-cohort team travels to Nepal
Posted on January 3, 2023
UMD Global STEWARDS Fellows are traveling to Nepal for a short-term faculty-led study abroad program during the first two weeks of January 2023. The program is focused on how Nepal is implementing food-energy-water-climate-
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UMD Global STEWARDS Welcomes 2023 Cohort
Posted on January 3, 2023
The UMD Global STEWARDS Program welcomed its fifth cohort of doctoral students on Friday December 2, 2022. Eleven fellows from six UMD schools and colleges (SPH, ENG, AGNR, CMNS, BSOS, ARCH) will come together and engage in interdisciplinary training and research opportunities aimed at creating innovative and sustainable solutions that ensure food, energy and water (FEW) security for future generations. Read more about our welcome event and new cohort!
Global STEWARDS Interdisciplinary Team publishes paper in journal Science & Education
Posted on July 19, 2022
A Global STEWARDS Interdisciplinary Team comprised of fellows from cohort 2 recently published their group project research in the journal Science & Education. The fellows, Ellen Platts, Bridget Kerner, Nick Adams & Jan-Michael Archer, conducted a research project focused on assessing the training of future researchers at the FEW nexus and exploring how these programs train students in particular views of what is important at the FEW nexus, such as technological solutions, stakeholder collaboration, and/or issues of equity and justice. Read their publication here: https://rdcu.be/cTtRT
Global STEWARDS Fellow Erica Forgione, wins a Thesis Award
Posted on July 8, 2022
The UMD civil and environmental engineering department awarded Global STEWARDS Fellow Erica Forgione the Best Doctoral Research Award for her dissertation, Nutrient Movement in a Vegetative Compost Blanket Amending a Vegetative Filter Strip on a Highway Slope. Her thesis advisors were Professors Ahmet Aydilek and Allen Davis. Read more about Erica’s award here: https://cee.umd.edu/news/story/forgione-orsquoshaughnessy-win-thesis-awards
UMD Global STEWARDS Fellow empowers a community’s relationship to the environment
Posted on February 1, 2022
UMD Global STEWARD Brittney Drakeford is committed to connecting people within her community of Cottage City, MD, with their environment. Through her volunteer efforts developing a neighborhood garden, opening farmers markets and helping churches become hubs for nourishment, Brittney is determined to give community members a voice. As a senior planner with Prince Georges county, Drakeford has the power to “bring in people who have not necessarily participated in these processes before,” she says. Read more about Brittney’s work featured in the Winter 2022 issue of Terp magazine, and on her personal website.
UMD Global STEWARDS Welcomes 2022 Cohort
Posted on December 15, 2021
The UMD Global STEWARDS Program welcomed its fourth cohort of doctoral students on Friday December 3, 2021. Twelve fellows from five UMD schools and colleges (SPH, ENG, AGNR, CNMS, BSOS) will come together and engage in interdisciplinary training and research opportunities aimed at creating innovative and sustainable solutions that ensure food, energy and water (FEW) security for future generations. Read more about about our welcome event and new cohort!
UMD Global STEWARDS investigate stormwater characteristics
Posted on December 3, 2021
Three UMD Global STEWARDS, Sai Pamuru, Kristen Croft and Erica Forgione, recently published an article in Science of The Total Environment that characterizes urban stormwater with the purpose of gaining deeper insights into the ecological impacts of urban runoff. The fellows and their advisors in the School of Engineering utilized public databases and assessed collected field data to characterize and summarize the complexity of urban stormwater. These data can provide insights for regulators and practitioners in determining water quality standards and treatment goals.
UMD Global STEWARD publishes in Nature
Posted on December 1, 2021
UMD Global STEWARD Sarah Ponte recently published an article in Nature Scientific Reports investigating the transpiration rates of red maple trees in urban forests of Maryland. Over the last four years, Sarah and her colleagues analyzed how water movement through trees in urban areas could decrease stormwater. The study could help determine whether to preserve forests or plant new trees when considering new urban developments, and thereby help cities determine the best practices for managing stormwater.
Visit to Patuxent Riverkeeper
Posted on September 10, 2021
The 2021 Global STEWARDS cohort paid a visit to the Patuxent Riverkeepers Headquarters and had a great conversation with Fred Tutman, Riverkeeper & CEO of the organization. The Riverkeepers is a global non-profit environmental organization with many chapters focusing on community issues surrounding local rivers and their watersheds.
Summer Boost 2021 a Success!
Posted on August 30th, 2021
Our Summer Boost 2021 workshop was held in a hybrid format, with both virtual and in-person sessions held over one week from August 19th – 25th. The workshop was also designed to provide dedicated time for the interdisciplinary teams to work on their projects, with teams providing updates on their progress at the beginning and end of the workshop. We also included some fun outdoor activities that could be held safely, such as a volunteer service activity to Forested and a happy hour at the Hall CP! See our social media pages for more photos and videos!
UMD Global STEWARD Clifton Cottrell Receives 2020 Tribal Food Systems Fellowship
Posted on September 17th, 2020
The Intertribal Agriculture Council (IAC) and the Inter-Institutional Network for Food, Agriculture, and Sustainability (INFAS) selected UMD Global STEWARD Clifton Cottrell as an inaugural Fellow of Tribal Food Systems.
This fellowship seeks to impact food and agriculture scholarship nationally and beyond. As a Fellow Clifton plans to work with mentors from other institutions to examine how tribal seed banks serve as food security sources during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Read more here: https://cgs.umd.edu/news/spp-phd-candidate-clifton-cottrell-receives-2020-tribal-food-systems-fellowship Congrats Clifton!
UMD Global STEWARD investigates the disproportionate burden of flooding in underserved communities
Posted on June 30th, 2020
Global STEWARD Bridget Kerner studies disaster events and the physical inequities of the built environment in marginalized communities like North Brentwood and Baltimore City with her advisor Dr. Marccus Hendricks in his Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience and Justice Lab (SIRJ). They have discovered residential segregation based on economic, political and social policy that, for hundreds of years, has limited Black and Brown communities in where they can live. The flooding events that impact these communities are not just a side effect of climate change, but the convergence of climate, aging infrastructure, disinvestment and a legacy of systemic racial injustice. Read more about their reserach here: https://www.arch.umd.edu/news-events/troubled-waters-rising-floodwaters-and-toll-marginalized-communities
UMD Global STEWARDS First Annual Meeting
Posted on January 31, 2020
The first UMD Global STEWARDS Annual meeting was held on Friday January 24, 2020. The meeting showcased the achievements of the first year of our Global STEWARDS program, and was an opportunity for co-PIs, advisors, supporting faculty, the advisory board to meet with the first and second cohorts of students and students meet the current and incoming fellows. We also heard exciting research talks and poster presentations from our faculty and fellows, and an inspiring keynote address from Dr. Rachel Melnick. Photos from our First Annual Meeting can be viewed on the UMD SPH Flickr page below.
UMD Global STEWARDS travel to Israel and the West Bank
Posted on January 17, 2020
A group of Global STEWARDS fellows traveled to Israel and the West Bank in January 2020 to learn about FEW nexus issues in these areas. The students were led by UMD faculty members Dr. Rianna Murray and Dr. Angela Ferelli and were joined by two students of the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Students learned from our Israeli partners who are world leaders in sustainable, energy-efficient water reuse for food production, and from local off-grid communities in the development of low or no energy water reuse systems for food crop irrigation.
UMD Global STEWARD publishes article in Native Business magazine
Posted on September 30, 2019
UMD Global STEWARD Clifton Cottrell recently published an article in Native Business magazine detailing the practice of agrivoltaics, a method that integrates agricultural practices within solar farms. Read Clifton’s article here: https://www.nativebusinessmag.com/reimagining-the-three-sisters-finding-a-new-symbiosis-in-tribal-food-and-energy-sovereignty/
Global STEWARDS Application Information Session
Posted on July 20, 2019
We will hold an information session for potential applicants to the 2020 cohort of the UMD Global STEWARDS program on Wednesday August 28th at 11am in the School of Public Health building, Room 0112. Stop by to hear more about our program and how to apply!
http://sph.umd.edu/event/information-session-umd-global-stewards-graduate-training-fellowship
Global STEWARDS host a workshop for the Maryland 4-H Congress
Posted on June 27, 2019
The Global STEWARDS conducted a workshop entitled “Rethink Your Waste” for students of the Maryland 4-H Congress held at the University of Maryland in June 2019. The 4-H Congress provides Maryland high school students an opportunity to connect with their land grant university while learning about academic and career options, attending workshops and tours on campus, enjoying campus recreational activities. The Global STEWARDS discussed the importance of proper waste management and waste reduction, and emphasized these concepts by playing a “Waste Game” where teams of students sorted mixed waste into “Recycle”, “Trash” and “Compost” bins. The students also learned about options for reuse of food and animal waste, including composting and turning waste into energy.
View more photos on the UMD School of Public Health Flickr page.
Global STEWARDS volunteer at the Capital Area Food Bank
Posted on June 10, 2019
The Global STEWARDS recently volunteered at the Capital Area Food Bank, a DC nonprofit that works to solve hunger and its companion problems: chronic undernutrition, heart disease, and obesity. The STEWARDS assisted food bank staff by sorting donations and cleaning and packing shelves in the agency distribution area.
Maryland Day 2019!
Posted on May 1, 2019
The UMD Global STEWARDS participated in Maryland Day 2019 on Saturday April 27th! We partnered with the CONSERVE Project to engage adults with a water footprint calculator to help them determine their household water use, and we made bead bracelets with kids to teach them about the water cycle. We also showed kids how to make their own homemade water filters, and had lots of cool giveaways like water bottles, baseball caps, plant kits, bubbles and coloring books.
Global STEWARDS visit Emmitsburg, MD
Posted on April 12, 2019
