The Rachel Carson Institute is part of the School of Sustainability and the Environment at Chatham University
The Rachel Carson Institute was established in 1989 to honor the legacy of Rachel Carson, class of 1929, an alumna of the Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University.) The Rachel Carson Institute within the School of Sustainability and the Environment is an internationally focused center for outreach , education, and research around the principles of systems thinking and multidisciplinary investigation that marked Rachel Carson's work.
To promote and extend the legacy of Rachel Carson;
To build on her commitment to publicly accessible science;
To share her vision of people as a part of a sustainable web of life.
