Dyani Frye

Dyani supports the Office of Sustainability through programming and delivery of the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS) for the University of Maryland, maintaining and updating the SustainableUMD website, and development and coordination of the Sustainability Literacy Survey. Dyani holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland, where she led a student organization that campaigned for sustainable lifestyle choices, and participated on UMD’s Soil Judging Team, helping the team win the National contest in 2019. Dyani also holds a Master of Science in Environmental Science and Management from California Polytechnic State University. Her thesis work investigated the use of portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry for indirectly measuring soil properties through machine learning algorithms. In her free time, Dyani enjoys hiking in the woods and identifying plants, animals, rocks, and fungi along the way. She also enjoys cooking, crafts, and spending time with her 2 cats.