Ming Xu and Josh Newell was awarded a grant of $319,000 to develop an integrated tool to evaluate water scarcity risks for industries with global supply chains.
The article “Urban green space, public health and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’” by Jennifer Wolch, Jason Byrne, and Joshua Newell was highlighted inn Next City’s Science of Cities column. Click here to read the column. From green roofs in Chicago to the High Line in Manhattan, U.S. cities have […]
The University Record ran a weeklong “Victors for Michigan” feature highlighting Joshua Newell’s work on underutilized urban spaces in a week long “Victors for Michigan.” Back alleys, vacant lots and underutilized urban spaces hold great potential for fostering more sustainable cities, if they can be reimagined and transformed into multidimensional green infrastructure that simultaneously delivers […]
Joshua Newell, Nancy Love, and Richard Norton were granted an MCubed award for their proposal Innovatively Planning for Technological Innovation: Water, Infrastructure, and Sustainability.MCubed is a two-year seed-funding program that provides startup funds for groundbreaking, high-risk research projects. The awards are intended to empower interdisciplinary U of M faculty teams to take on innovative work […]
Joshua Newell and Robert Vos’ (USC) research on the carbon footprint of paper in U.S. and Chinese supply chains is featured on the USC News website. Two studies by Newell and Vos demonstrate how current methods of measuring the carbon footprint of consumer products are insufficient in measuring the products’ true impacts, particularly as they […]