Category: "Hixon Center"
Donnelly to Direct Hixon Center for Climate and the Environment
January 12, 2022

Professor of Physics Tom Donnelly has been appointed as the inaugural director of the Hixon Center for Climate and the Environment (HCCE) at Harvey Mudd College. In partnership with inaugural Hixon Professor of Climate Studies Lelia Hawkins, Donnelly will steward the HCCE toward its vision as a leading center for undergraduate climate curriculum, research and campus practice. “There’s an opportunity […]
Harvey Mudd College’s Hixon Center Re-envisioned and Expanded
September 20, 2021

The former Hixon Center for Sustainable Environmental Design has reopened this fall as the Hixon Center for Climate and the Environment and is poised to become the locus for new climate studies courses as well as other curricular, co-curricular and research endeavors at Harvey Mudd College and in the Claremont consortium. In tandem with the […]
Harvey Mudd Receives STARS Silver Rating for Sustainability Achievements
May 13, 2019

Harvey Mudd College has earned a STARS Silver rating in recognition of its sustainability achievements from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). STARS, the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System, measures and encourages sustainability in all aspects of higher education. Led by the Hixon Center for Sustainable Environmental Design, the […]
Harvey Mudd Receives Bronze Rating for Sustainability Performance
June 15, 2018

Improving building operations. Reducing waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Teaching sustainability and promoting it in leadership and innovation. These are some of the metrics that feed into the comprehensive Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) system used by more than 450 colleges and universities worldwide to establish benchmarks and measure their progress toward becoming […]
NSF Funds REU Project
March 19, 2018

Driven by a desire to find funding for student research, Harvey Mudd College Professors Lisette de Pillis (Norman F. Sprague Jr. Professor of Life Sciences, professor of mathematics and department chair) and Tanja Srebotnjak (director of the Hixon Center for Sustainable Environmental Design) looked to the National Science Foundation for options. “I really wanted to […]
Evans’ ILLiad Odyssey
May 2, 2017

When Zach Evans ’18 set out to find a summer research project, he wound up in a ditch. Don’t worry, he’s fine. In fact, not only is the ditch (a bioswale at Pomona College, to be specific) a perfect location for his research, but his journey to determine his career path earned Evans an Undergraduate […]
Harvey Mudd Joins Call to Climate Action
January 13, 2017

Higher education institutions across the country and around the world recognize their academic and ethical responsibilities to take aggressive climate action by supporting and increasing interdisciplinary climate and environmental education, researching the earth’s climate system and by reducing carbon emissions. In a collaborative letter delivered today to the incoming administration, leaders in higher education, including […]
Team Studies Monetary Impacts of Germany’s Environmental Health Burden
January 10, 2017

A consortium consisting of the German environmental think tank Ecologic Institute, consulting firm BiPro GmBH and Harvey Mudd College Professor Tanja Srebotnjak submitted a successful bid to the German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA) to study approaches for the monetary valuation of Germany’s environmental burden of disease. The 28-months-long, € 221,000 project will examine different economic […]
New Internship Opportunities Offered to HMC Students
November 17, 2016

Environmentally minded Harvey Mudd College students have new internship and volunteer opportunities available to them, thanks to programs offered by Harvey Mudd and Claremont McKenna colleges. Representatives from The Hixon Center for Sustainable Environmental Design at Harvey Mudd College and the Roberts Environmental Center at Claremont McKenna College welcomed local community members Nov. 15 to the Energize Colleges […]