CALL FOR STUDENTS. ALL MAJORS DESIRED

June 1 – August 5, 2021

Applications Due January 21st, 2021.

PURPOSE:

The PSEG Institute for Sustainability Studies (PSEGISS) plays a transformative role in transdisciplinary research and education to address the real-world sustainability issues of our time. By building academic-corporate-public partnerships, PSEG ISS provides its collaborators vital research and knowledge on how human activity impacts globally-connected communities, ecosystems, and economies, and recommends feasible approaches to achieve the changes needed.

SOLUTION:

PSEG ISS offers a team-based, paid internship in collaboration with hosting organizations. Transdisciplinary teams of students complete deliverables to assist a corporation, local business, or government agency with their sustainability challenges.

Over ten weeks students work with industry experts to achieve high-level deliverables and present a comprehensive and actionable written report in addition  to a group TED-style presentation to their hosting organization.

PROJECTS CONDUCTED:

• Mapped street trees & evaluated carbon sequestration rates
• Conducted a greenhouse gas inventory
• Integrated technology into agricultural environments
• Modeled a closed-loop food system
• Calculated scope 3 emissions
• Conducted an organic waste reduction feasibility study

FOR  MORE INFORMATION/TOAPPLY bit.ly/PSEGISSGreenTeams2021StudentApp

www.montclair.edu/issDr. Amy R. Tuiningatuiningaa@montclair.edu