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Sacred Heart University Remembers Professor Jennifer Mattei
Over her 27 years of service at Sacred Heart, Prof. Jennifer Mattei truly exemplified all that we strive to achieve as faculty members.
The Department of Biology recently lost a beloved member of our faculty. Over her 27 years of service at Sacred Heart University, Professor Jennifer Mattei truly exemplified all that we strive to achieve as faculty members in the department: providing the best education possible, offering our undergraduates abundant opportunities to conduct research and instilling in our students a love of live-long learning.
Professor Mattei was known throughout the SHU community for her passion about the environment — in particular the endangered horseshoe crab and shoreline restoration. She engaged anyone who would listen, especially her students who often joined her and other volunteers in such projects such as tagging horseshoe crabs, installing reef balls, sand dunes and vegetation to promote shoreline restoration at Stratford Point, and much more.
To honor Professor Mattei's legacy, the Department of Biology is creating The Jennifer H. Mattei Scholarship for Undergraduate Research. This scholarship will provide undergraduate students with stipends to conduct research in Connecticut with a biology faculty member in the fields of ecology, coastal management and restoration or other biological studies involving Long Island Sound, and to support Project Limulus and related ecological research. A portion of the funds may be used for student travel to academic conferences.
We invite you to join fellow SHU alumni and friends in making a gift to the Jennifer H. Mattei Scholarship for Undergraduate Research to honor and continue Professor Mattei's legacy of conservation research at Sacred Heart.
