Faculty Directory

Suzanne LePage

Adjunct Professor

Office: Kaven Hall, 2076
Phone: +1-508-831-5598
slepage@wpi.edu

Educational Background

B.S., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1995

Research & Teaching Interests

Sustainability; Community Planning; Stormwater Management; Water Resources; Waste Management; Energy; Food & Agriculture

IQP Advising Interests

water pollution; soil pollution; natural resource management; energy politics; redevelopment of urban areas; fiscal management; social cost & social change; solid waste; competition for open space; energy policy; resource management; rehabilitation of buildings; preservation of agricultural lands; housing & urbanization

Years of Service at WPI

• Adjunct Professor, 2007-present

Professional Experience & Activities

• Regional Services Manager, Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission, Worcester, MA, 2004-2008
• Transportaion Planning Consultant, Southern Maine Regional Planning Commission, Springvale, ME, 2000-2004
• Associate Transportation Planner, Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission, Worcester, MA, 1993-1998
• Community Activities
  • Informal Work-for-Food Agreement, Pod Meadow Farm, Warren & Sturbridge, MA, 2006, 2008
  • Active citizenship, Sustainable Worcester, Worcester, MA, 2007
  • Management and labor to reestablish a one-acre organic growing field, Local Foods Farm, Grafton, MA, 2006
  • Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Working Share Member, Many Hands Organic Farm, Barre, MA 2005
  • CSA Working Share Member, Wolfpine Farm, Alfred, ME, 2002-2004
  • Alternate Member, Growth Management Committee, Town of York Planning Board, York, ME, 1999-2000

Media Coverage

• Mayor's forum w/Worcester Mayor Konstantina Lukes, appeared as one of three special guests to talk about Sustainability and Community Planning, 1997