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Alumni Profile: Ben Leer, Class of 2015

by Katherine Gloede Silverman

My name is Ben Leer, I am a sustainability consultant, designer, builder and educator. I currently teach in the Building Science department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and am a NAPHN trainer for the international Passive House Tradesperson Certification. My path has been unconventional and at times challenging, but my various experiences have given me a broad perspective on what it means to create a sustainable future.   As an undergrad at Hunter College I studied environmental science. This is where I was first introduced to the many problems that plague our planet. Armed with the scientific knowledge that things had …

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Alumni Profile: Paul Celicourt, Class of 2011

by Katherine Gloede Silverman

I am currently pursuing postdoctoral research at the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences at Université Laval in Quebec, Canada. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Electromechanical Engineering (2009) from the Université d’Etat d’Haiti (Haiti), a Master of Science (2011) in Sustainability in the Urban Environment and a Ph.D. (2017) in Civil Engineering (Hydroinformatics) from the City College of New York.  As an undergraduate student, I was interested in natural resources management with a focus on energy resources. However, the capstone project that I had the opportunity to work on in the Urban Sustainability program at CCNY shifted my …

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Alumni Profile: Kenneth Almario, Class of 2019

by Katherine Gloede Silverman

Kenneth Almario is a Sustainability Coordinator and Assistant Urban Designer at the New York City Department of Design and Construction. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture (2015) from the New York Institute of Technology and a Master of Science (2019) in Sustainability in the Urban Environment from the City College of New York. As an undergraduate student, Kenneth became interested in the future of cities and the potential for applying innovative design solutions to the environmental challenges of our century. He focused on developing sustainable and resilient methods of design, aspiring to one day design functional and attractive spaces for …

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Alumni Profile: Yuliya Dzyuban, Class of 2015

by Katherine Gloede Silverman

I received a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a masters degree in the U.S. Sustainability program at CCNY which looked like a good fit to connect my architecture background and interest in sustainability. The program gave me a solid introduction to sustainability concepts and helped me to understand that it is a truly interdisciplinary science. It was my first experience working with classmates from a variety of fields many of whom came from the industry. My interest and capstone project in resilienceto flooding enabled me to get a fellowship at the NSF funded project Urban Resilience to Weather Extremes Sustainability Research …

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