Star City Sustainability Society Series Lecture
Thu, Apr 28
|Location is TBD
Presenter: Dr. Melissa Rooney Topic: Incorporating Sustainable Stormwater Management in Public (& Private) Education Location TBD About Melissa: After receiving undergraduate degrees in English and Chemistry from the College of William and Mary, Melissa Rooney earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from
Time & Location
Apr 28, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location is TBD
About The Event
Presenter: Dr. Melissa Rooney
Topic: Incorporating Sustainable Stormwater Management in Public (& Private) Education
Location TBD
About Melissa:
After receiving undergraduate degrees in English and Chemistry from the College of William and Mary, Melissa Rooney earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1998. She was awarded a fellowship from the Australian Research Council and conducted Chemistry research at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, from 1999-2002. In 2002, she returned to North Carolina to raise her family. Since then, she has worked as a contract editor and freelance writer and has published stories, poetry, and columns in newspapers, serial publications, anthologies, and picture books.
Her children’s books Eddie the Electron and The Fate of The Frog form the basis of two workshops Melissa provides to elementary and middle school students through a Durham program called Culture and Arts in the Public Schools (CAPS).…