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Student Research


In addition to the suite of activities designed for the on-campus sheep events by students in the College of Natural Sciences and School of Earth and Sustainability, students in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts have engaged in research on various aspects of sheep and sheep-derived products and the roles they have played in art, culture, and landscape design across the world. Click on the titles below to read their work.
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  • Sheep and the Democratic Park: How English Landscape Parks Inspired Olmsted’s Park for the People, by Meredith Boyle
  • Sustainable EweMass: Robert Moses and the Flock of Central Park, by Amelia Ceballos
  • Thomas Cole, Transcendentalism, and the Climate Crisis, by Owen Embury
  • A Centuries-Old Technique: Brining Sheep Mowing to UMass, by Maia Medina
  • The Legacy of Sheep in Persian Manuscripts and Beyond: A Case Study of the Mongols, Ilkhanids, and their influences on the Timurids and Safavids, by Andersson J. Perry
  • Michelangelo’s David: Marble or Wool?, by Maria Pitel 

Other Sheep-Related Research:
  • UC Davis Sheepmowers Project
  • MSU researchers examine benefits of sheep grazing in vegetable farming
  • ​Nantucket Conservation Foundation: Sheep Grazing Research
  • Minnesota research finds sheep grazing at solar sites actually improves soil quality
  • Combining solar panels and lamb grazing increases land productivity, study finds

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