About LivingLabs Nantucket

Nantucket was the first site for LivingLabs, innovative educational programs for teaching and learning by doing concrete in situ projects. The spring 2013 semester, from January 21 until April 19, Nantucket became a science laboratory for a group of 18 University of Massachusetts Boston undergraduates participating in this innovative environmental program that offers courses for students studying the environmental sciences, including biomimicry research and education.

The LivingLab Nantucket Semester leveraged the unique natural resources and culture of the Island to provide students with a residential program that deeply engages students in developing and implementing solutions to pressing environmental issues. This initiative is an effort to foster transdisciplinary learning and local actions that integrate the needs and challenges of local communities into the academic environmental curriculum.

LivingLabs and the Living Labs Nantucket semester represent a revolution in undergraduate environmental education. Providing students, through a learning community, the skills and experiences needed to become innovators, true leaders in solving our most pressing environmental problems is what these programs are all about.

The program is administered by Robyn Hannigan, Chair of EEOS and Sarah Oktay, Director of the Nantucket Field Station.

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