Sustainability research program quietly shutters after administrative departure

An administrative departure in GW’s sustainability office this summer was followed by the quiet removal of a major sustainability program and uncertainty about the future of an administrative review of GW’s dining services.

Kathleen Merrigan, the former executive director of sustainability and the director of GW’s Food Institute, said she left June 30 after accepting a position at another university. After she left, the University’s Sustainability Collaborative – a pairing of 11 different research programs that works on grant proposals and sustainability research – was dissolved, and the Food Institute moved under the direction of the Milken Institute School of Public Health, officials said.

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