Marian Brown, director of the Center for Sustainability and the Environment, has been named to the planning committee for the State of NY Sustainability conference, which this year will be a virtual three-day conference. She was also invited by the Sustainable Endowments Institute to have Wells serve as a pilot institution for their “GRITS Goals” tool to model and track energy and emissions reductions for capital projects. Brown is also part of the new CICU Energy Committee, a collaborative partnership between the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities (CICU) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to devise ways to ensure that private schools in New York are fully aware of the resources and support to become more energy efficient and less dependent on fossil fuels.
Gehan Dhameeth, associate professor of business, was invited by Stockholm University (Sweden) and e-University (Malaysia) to be an examiner and an external Ph.D. and DBA dissertation supervisor. He was also invited to be an editorial member of the Sri Lanka Journal of Marketing [ISSN (Print) -1800-4989].
An article by Niamh O’Leary, professor of environmental science, entitled “Water Quality Data for Fall Creek, New York, USA: 1972–1995” has been accepted by the peer-reviewed journal Hydrological Processes. This article is co-authored with D.R. Bouldin.
Erinn Ryen, assistant professor of business, published a 2019 article with collaborators Sandra Rothenberg and Anne G. Sherman: “The Evolution of Research on Sustainable Business Models: Implications for Management Scholars,” Journal of Environmental Sustainability [Vol. 7 : Iss. 1 , Article 3].