Author: CECE
CECE Postdoctoral Fellow Speaks on Demography and Climate Disasters
Dr. Julie A. González, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at CECE, was featured on the podcast The Demographer’s Diary, hosted by Dr. Coda Rayo-Garza, to discuss how demographic research shows the human dimensions of climate disasters. In the episode titled, “Demography and Climate Disasters,” Dr. González explained how population data such as age, housing, health, language, […]
[Recap] The Importance and Potential of Environmental Storytelling
The Center for Environment, Community, and Equity (CECE) co-hosted a panel of environmental storytellers alongside the Center for Environmental Filmmaking on October 14, 2025 bringing in three experts to talk about their experiences in the field and the insight they bring to the future of climate communication. Joe Romm, Senior Research Fellow at the University […]
CECE Announces New Partnership with the Center For Environmental Filmmaking
CECE is thrilled to announce a new partnership with the Center for Environmental Filmmaking (CEF) which will be creating content as a part of our Workforce Development and the 4Rs project this year. CEF Executive Director Maggie Stogner and Associate Director Larry Engel will lead a team of students in producing short documentaries that highlight […]
CECE Postdoctoral Fellow Speaks on Extreme Heat and Health
Dr. Julie A. González, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at CECE, was invited to join a live news forum with journalist Cesar Miguel Rondón, broadcast simultaneously on TVV Network and Éxitos 107.1 FM Miami, to discuss headlines about regions projected to face dangerous levels of extreme heat by 2050. In her remarks (timecode 1:14 to 1:30 […]
CECE Explores Community Resilience at Climate Week NYC’s House of Scientista
On Thursday September 25th, CECE co-sponsored the House of Scientista event at Climate Week NYC. The event, hosted by Scientista, discussed the future of food, philanthropy, and communications during climate and political change. As people arrived at the event, Dr. Dana R. Fisher, elicited insight from four leaders in community resilience via red carpet interviews. […]
CECE at Climate Week NYC 2025
Several CECE faculty and affliates will be attending Climate Week next week in New York City. Below are a few events that they will be participating in. Upstream, Downriver – Uniting for Water Justice Screening The Center for Environmental Filmmaking‘s Professor Maggie Stogner will be screening her documentary “Upstream, Downriver – Uniting for Water Justice” virtually […]
Call for Proposals for CECE Faculty Research Incubator Program
The Center for Environment, Community, & Equity is delighted to announce a Call for Submissions to our 2025-2026 Faculty Research Incubator Program. We are inviting interdisciplinary teams of scholars to submit short proposals for projects to be developed during the academic year (MAXIMUM: 2 pages including references). By the end of the summer, teams are […]
[Recap] WCL hosts panel on Climate Change Opinions of the International Court of Justice and [...]
By: Michael Culbert The conjunction of human rights and climate change was first brought up at Buenos Aires Climate Change Conference in 2004 and laughed at as a realistic framework… well “no one is laughing now.”1 The International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) both took steps this July […]
CECE Announces New National Science Foundation Grant
We are delighted to report that Professors Scott Freeman and Mike Alonzo were just awarded a 2.5 year grant from the National Science Foundation to support their research. The grant builds on their previous research, which was supported by the CECE Faculty Research Incubator Program.
Final Student Reports Complete Inaugural DataCorps Fellowship
The Workforce Development & the 4Rs project wrapped up its first summer of the DataCorps Fellowship Program. At the beginning of the summer, the DataCorps fellows identified individual topics they would like to research. Each fellow then designed one to two questions on their topics to be included in the project’s service corps member survey. […]
Tracking Activism and Resistance at the No Kings Day of Action
Over the past 6 months, protesters have flooded the streets across the country to voice their concerns about the Trump Administration and its policies. Multiple large-scale, coordinated days of action organized by groups such as Indivisible and more informal networks like 50501 movement have taken place. The most recent day of action was called No […]
[Recap] Visualizing Environmental Change
On Tuesday, November 11, CECE held the final colloquium of the fall semester, which focused on the role of data visualization in climate communication. Our guest speaker, Megan, Senior Visual Content Producer at Climate Central, shared valuable insights from her work translating complex climate data into clear, engaging, and trustworthy visuals. The discussion emphasized the […]