Fellows
Congratulations, Hannah!
Renaissance of the Earth Fellow, Hannah Gould, won the 2025 Gerald F. Scanlon Student Employee of the Year Award
in recognition of her outstanding research and public humanities projects at the Kinney Center and contributions to the UMass community.
Hannah Gould
English & Applied Plant and Soil Science
School of Humanities & Fine Arts
Stockbridge School of Agriculture
Hannah’s research includes public-facing materials that educate visitors to Kinney Center’s 28 acre grounds about the ecological histories and modern crises that face some of the plants and trees that grow there. Hannah is the recipient of the Undergraduate Sustainability Research Award for her project Community Classroom of Hope and she also serves as the Undersecretary of Sustainability in the Student Government Association for UMass.
Melanie Morgan
Horticulture & Sustainable Food and Farming
Stockbridge School of Agriculture
Melanie engages in innovative hands-on research across the Center’s rare book library, kitchen garden, and apple orchard as she considers: “What models for sustainability do the past offer to our present moment of ecological crises?”