School of Sustainability and the Environment

Faculty

• David Hassenzahl, Ph.D.
  Dean and Professor, School of Sustainability and the Environment

• Alice Julier, Ph.D.
  Program Director and Associate Professor, Food Studies

• Michael Finewood, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Sustainability

• Crystal Fortwangler, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Sustainability and Anthropology

• Nadine Lehrer, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Food Studies

• Allen Matthews
  Director and Instructor of Sustainable Agriculture

• Molly Mehling, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Ecology and Sustainability

• Mim Seidel, MS, RD, LDN
  Instructor/Internship Coordinator

Adjunct Faculty

• Danae Clark, Ph.D.
• Sally Frey, Ph.D.
• Margaret Puskar-Pascewicz, Ph.D.

Collaborating Faculty

• Lynne Bruckner, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor of English

• Katherine Cruger, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor and Program Director, MA in Communications Program

• Deborah DeLong, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Marketing

• Sherie Edenborn, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Microbiology

• David Fraser, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Biology

• Gregory Galford, MA
  Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture

• Linda Johnson, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor of Biology

• Mary Beth Mannarino, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor and Program Director, Graduate Psychology Programs

• Joseph MacNeil, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor of Chemistry

• Marc Nieson, MFA
  Assistant Professor Creative Writing

• Prajana Parashar, Ph.D.
  Program Director, Film

• Sheryl St. Germain, Ph.D.
  Professor and Program Director, MFA in Creative Writing Programs

• Kathleen Sullivan, MS
  Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture

Staff

Jessica Mooney
Assistant to the Dean

In this position, she has been involved in design charettes for Chatham’s new Eden Hall Campus in Richland Township, PA which will become the first higher education sustainability campus built from the ground up, and developed and written grant proposals to support projects and faculty research.

Jessica has extensive experience in city and county government sustainability planning and practices, including data gathering, analysis and recommendations that provide institutions with baseline statistics and best-practice next steps. Most recently, she worked on business development for the Allegheny County Economic Development department as Assistant Manager, and evaluated Community Development Block Grants. She was a member of the Allegheny County Green Team that was tasked with reducing the County’s greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2015. She was also a key member of the team that helped the City of Pittsburgh, PA initiate its Green Government Task Force and helped complete the Pittsburgh Climate Protection Initiative. Jessica is a board member at Allegheny Land Trust.