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WHO WE A RE Established in 2003, the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation (MCSI) is the University of Pittsburgh’s university-wide sustainability center focused on catalyzing sustainability research and education. MCSI leads Pitt’s faculty sustainability engagement via strategy and programs focused on integrating sustainability into the curriculum, groundbreaking sustainability research, and community outreach and innovation. MCSI's various student opportunities focus on exploring and experiencing sustainability in research, practice, and performance. MCSI’s Faculty Sustainability Task Force brings together representatives from every Pitt school to advance sustainability through the integration of a multidisciplinary curriculum, groundbreaking research, innovation, community engagement, and partnership. MCSI also creates opportunities to coordinate academic collaborations across campus with Pitt’s other sustainability-focused and -related research centers.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Environmental Justice Pitt’s sustainability work has spanned decades, working to advance efforts of equity, environment, and economics so current and future generations can thrive. Defined differently by many, environmental justice is focused on maintaining healthy environments, especially for individuals and communities who have traditionally lived, worked, and played closest to sources of pollution or negative environmental impacts. The Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation commits to making diversity, equity, and inclusion a part of its research and education by emphasizing the key role that environmental justice plays in sustainability. The Mascaro Center will continue to work with communities faced with systemic environmental racism to make a positive change and strive to reach environmental justice.
The Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation aims to foster and achieve the University’s sustainability vision through the development and integration of curriculum, groundbreaking research, community outreach and innovation.
