Brown Environmental Leadership Lab
BELL in Rhode Island

Information about the 2011 program will be posted in March 2011.

From across the U.S., select high school student meet for the first time on the campus of Brown University. For 2-week sessions, students will live at the university’s Haffenreffer estate, a 372-acre historic farm adjacent to Narragansett Bay. In a program known as BELL or the Brown Environmental Leadership Lab, students engage in intensive leadership development activities and learn about sustainable development and field ecology through the academic fields of biology, geology, and environmental science and policy. Students are mentored by Brown faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students.

This unique program is made available to two Hawai‘i Island high school students through Brown University and The Kohala Center.

In the Sustainable Development Program, students learn how human demands on the environment can compromise the long-term health of ecosystems that exist to sustain us. Students develop the leadership necessary for tackling environmental problems within their home communities, and also learn about policies, practices, and emerging technologies that help to reduce human ecological impact. In the Field Ecology Program, students examine the science behind current environmental issues, and learn about current environmental science research. Students also participate in an ongoing research project, and practice designing an experiment and analyzing and reporting scientific data.

For more information visit the BELL Web site.