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A Forgotten Field?
How the Science, Technology, and Society program, led by Professor Sheila Jasanoff, is striving for a place in the academic fabric of Harvard Margarita Boenig-Liptsin grew up in the shadow of Chernobyl. She was born just one week after the disaster, 150...
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Harvard Creates Global Institute
Institute awards $3.75 million grant to project co-led by Michael McElroy that investigates climate change, energy security, and sustainable development in China The grant to atmospheric scientist Michael McElroy, the Gilbert Butler Professor of...
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To Sample Climate Concerns, Look at Nature
HUBweek panel featuring professors James McCarthy and Daniel Schrag says recent past helps to show where action is needed, including in Boston For those wondering what’s needed to face down coming climate-related disasters, the approach is simple...
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Focus on Food
Twenty-two faculty, including many Board of Tutors professors, deliver lightning lectures on research, realities involving what we eat By Colin Durrant, Harvard Staff Writer “If we are so rich, why don’t we eat better food?” Asked by Harvard Business...
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More Eyes on Climate Change
Season Spotter, co-created by Professor Andrew Richardson, invites citizen-scientists to help with research By Peter Reuell, Harvard Gazette The options for how to spend your free time are almost endless, whether it’s working out at the gym, curling up...
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Reunion and Reassessment
75 attend gathering of grads who concentrated in Environmental Science and Public Policy By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer Harvard Gazette For George Reed, the weekend was like coming home. Nearly 16 years after he graduated from Harvard with a...
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Global Dilemma
With an eye on the U.N. Climate Summit, environmental economist Robert Stavins shares his thoughts on priorities leaders should set in working toward next international agreement By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer First, do no harm. As world leaders...
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Worrisome Growth Pattern
Researchers, including ESPP Board of Tutors member Andrew Richardson, connect earlier spring to climate change By Peter Reuell, Harvard Staff Writer Every spring, as the weather warms, trees up and down the East Coast explode in a display of bright green...
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Studying Energy, Environment
Harvard adds secondary field where undergrads can study climate change By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer A major Antarctic ice sheet has begun a slow, inexorable slide into the sea, scientists said this week. A government report said last week that...
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Senior Honors Thesis Poster Presentations
Join us as eight of our ESPP Seniors present their Honors Theses! The presentations will take place on May 1 at 1pm in the HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford Street 3rd Floor. Refreshments will be provided. >> Learn More

Advising on Climate Change
When government ponders helpful policies, Harvard faculty members—including Daniel Schrag and Jim McCarthy—are front and center By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer When Daniel Schrag arrived at Harvard as a 30-year-old geologist interested in...
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