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2022 SENIOR CAPSTONES
The senior capstone in the Environmental Studies Program is a central part of our curriculum, where students design their own culminating experience to integrate and apply what they learned in their studies at Washington and Lee. This past year saw perhaps the widest array of topics and projects tackled yet. Students designed service projects and social entrepreneurship business plans, created digital books and interactive web stories, and charted solutions to sustainability challenges. Here’s the list of capstone titles produced by this remarkable graduating class:
Ruth Abraham — “Preferences for Intervention Methods of Shared Ecological Resources in Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil.”
Annie Bernot — “Healthcare Sustainability: Repurposing Surgical Sterilization Wraps as a Waste Reduction Strategy”
Adelaide Burton — “Transitioning the Washington & Lee Fleet to Electric Vehicles — A Viability Case Study”
Chris Curtis — “Solutions for protecting vulnerable transportation infrastructure and social equity in Miami-Dade”
Joey Dunn & Justin Littlejohn — “Social enterprise business plan for solutions to mitigate urban heat islands”
Ella Hall — “Environmental and Financial Potential of a Menstrual Cup — A Service Project”
Maya Hernandez — “Voices of the Valley — Oral Histories of Pipeline Resistance”
Sarah Hollen — “The Role of Deliberative Democracy in Environmental Decision-Making — A Case Study of the Thacker Pass Lithium Mining Project”
Nick Greenberg — “Using Social Media to Better Communicate Scientific Research in the Outdoor Community”
Mark Lamendola — Understanding Patterns and Preferences of Campus Green Space Use at Washington and Lee University
A.J. Mabaka — “Offshore Wind Energy & Commercial Fisheries Technical Report: Environmental Impact Analysis of the South Fork Wind Farm & Export Cable on the Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery”
Bri Mondesir — “Searching for Stability — The Intersections of Environment, Income, and Health”
Judy Park — The Sinking Village of America — Shismaref, Alaska”
Whit Rudder — “Maury River Restoration through Community Engagement”
Christopher Watt — “Metrics to Assess Indifly’s Support of Socio-Economic Well-being in Indigenous Communities”
