Earmark - EE Just Environmental Institute

Agency:		Department of Commerce
Bureau:		National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Account:		Operations, research, and facilities (13-1450)
Certifying Official:		Budget Officer
Contact Information:		http://WWW.DOC.GOV 202-482-4883

EE Just Environmental Institute

1 recipient will receive $739,000. This is a first-time earmark.

Year Enacted: 2005

Description: This earmark funds a 1-week institute in NH for teachers to learn experimental design, design curriculum units using an inquiry-based approach, and receive instruction in how to teach inquiry-based problem solving skills and how to empower students within an interdisciplinary approach to teaching.

Beneficiary/Recipient	Amount ($K)	Program	Type	Address
Kimball Union Academy (95506275)	$739		Private Educational Institution	57 Main Street Meriden, NH
Comment: The E.E. Just Environmental Institute, named after an eminent African American cell biologist and Kimball Union (1903) and Dartmouth graduate (1907), is an integrated summer environmental studies program developed by Kimball Union Academy. Kimball Union is a college preparatory boarding and day college preparatory school for 310 students located in Meriden, NH. It is a private non-profit IRS designated 501 (c) 3 organization. The summer institute will build upon the already established environmental education program implemented by KUA in 1995 under the direction of nationally recognized educator Dr. Dean Goodwin, Director of Environmental Education at Kimball Union.

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