Institute of Technology faculty to help tackle environmental issues

Three Institute of Technology faculty are among the fifteen founding fellows named to the University of Minnesota's new Institute on the Environment.

The Institute of Technology faculty serving as fellows are professors Paige Novak (civil engineering), Christopher Paola (geology and geophysics), and Lanny Schmidt (chemical engineering and materials science).

Established in 2006, the Institute on the Environment will coordinate the university's breadth and depth of environmental resources to make it easier for researchers to share knowledge with each other and the public. More...