Water Systems Science and Society (WSSS)

Certificate Program
www.tufts.edu/water
617.627.3645

Tufts University's graduate certificate program in Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) is a model for integrative graduate education both within and outside Tufts-a model that organizes research and training according to the problems to be addressed, working across disciplinary boundaries. To this end, this unique certificate program has three goals:

To develop research projects that will make significant local, national, and global contributions.
To educate a diverse, ethical, skilled set of professionals who are trained to be multidisciplinary even as they develop a specialization.
To meet the growing global demand for interdisciplinary water experts.

By meeting these goals, Tufts and WSSS graduates will be uniquely equipped to develop integrated, interdisciplinary solutions to the complex science, public health, economic, engineering, environmental, behavioral, planning, and policy issues surrounding U.S. and international water crises.

To ensure sufficient depth and expertise in a particular discipline, graduate students in the WSSS program enroll in and obtain their degrees from a participating Tufts school, fulfilling all requirements for that program, in addition to certificate requirements. These include taking three electives from four broad core areas, participating in unifying seminars and workshops specific to WSSS, and fulfilling the requirements for either the research or the practicum track of the program. Upon completion of these activities, the student is awarded a WSSS Certificate. Participation in WSSS does not add significant extra time to most students' graduate programs because several WSSS core courses can also be counted toward the requirements in participating schools and departments.

FACULTY/SPECIALTY

Richard Vogel (Faculty Committee Chair)
Ph.D., Cornell University
Hydrology and water resource engineering with emphasis on hydrologic, hydraulic and statistical methods for analyzing water resource systems

Timothy Griffin (Faculty Committee Member)
Ph.D., Michigan State University
The intersection of agriculture and the environment, and the development and implementation of sustainable production systems

Rusty Russell (Faculty Committee Member)
J.D., Harvard Law School
Environmental law and policy, energy policy, clean air and water issues, field research

Antje Danielson (Program Manager)
Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin

Heather Angstrom (Program Coordinator)
M.S., Tufts University

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