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The Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosts running colloquia for graduate students to present their research to globally engaged faculty and fellow students. In our third graduate colloquium of the year, Chemical and Biological Engineering PhD candidate Maggie O'Connell will present on “Understanding Sustainability via Ojibwe Gikendaasowin (Ojibwe Knowledge).” Q&A and discussion will follow; light refreshments will be served.

Maggie O’Connell is a PhD candidate and Presidential Fellow in Chemical and Biological Engineering. Specializing in life cycle and technoeconomic analysis, her dissertation research focuses on shifting measurements of sustainability to a focus on ecological and human relationships. Collaborating with Ojibwe Knowledge holders, she argues that assessment methods measuring sustainability must honor Indigenous Knowledge and worldviews, or else the push for a sustainable future risks repeating extractive injustices of the past.  

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