Merrilee Anderson and her colleagues have designed a most interesting and important course that will help students learn basic math and science through the study of abandoned mine drainage remediation efforts.  This is a complex, capacious, and very important regional challenge with significant larger impacts both for learning and for the environment.   It embodies the SENCER ideals. Merrilee’s leadership and imagination will not end with this innovative course offering.  Rather, she intends to use the course and engage the students in developing productive relationships with other colleges in the region as well as the DEP, watershed associations, and other state and local groups.

As a SENCER Leadership Fellow, Merrilee will work to incorporate active research in undergraduate courses, expand the abandoned mine drainage remediation course and research program, participate in SENCER regional activities (especially in forming associations with neighboring colleges), and secure support for expanding SENCER projects on campus and the region.

Merrilee was elected to the inaugural class of Leadership Fellows in July 2008.