Environmental Science and Design Research Institute
For anyone who has traveled to 91²Ö¿â over the summer, the Summit Street construction project has been quite an inconvenience for drivers. For Lauren Kinsman-Costello, though, it’s an opportunity to make the campus more ecologically friendly and establish trends in biology, chemistry, geology and ecology.
What some call a sustainable answer to urban flaws, Anna Droz calls research. As a biological sciences doctoral student in 91²Ö¿â’s College of Arts and Sciences, Droz’s curiosity has developed into a passion, maybe even an obsession, to discover the best vegetative roof combinations with the optimal plants, soil, and micro-organism communities.