Author: CECE

  • Climate and Sustainability, Environmental Equity and Justice

    CECE Postdoc, Julie González, Speaks with Telemundo on Extreme Weather Events in the Northeast US

    Dr. Julie A. González, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at CECE, spoke to Telemundo about the wildfires and droughts impacting New Jersey and New York, their connection to climate change, and the risks these events pose to communities as we face a very dry winter ahead. Click here to watch the full segment
  • Climate and Sustainability

    American University Experts Weigh in on COP29

    On 11 November, the 29th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (the UNFCCC’s COP-29) begins in Baku, Azerbaijan.  This round of negotiations is the last one before countries are expected to submit their updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement by early 2025.  Since many countries are still off […]
  • Position Announcement: CECE Postdoctoral Fellow

    Job Description: The School of International Service at American University (AU) invites applications for an eighteen-month Center for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE) Postdoctoral Fellow in Civic Environmentalism.  The Post-Doctoral fellow will work on the Addressing Climate Through Our Nation’s Service Corps Program under the project’s Principal Investigator, Professor Dana R. Fisher. We seek a […]
  • Climate and Sustainability

    CECE Secures Additional Funding to Expand ‘Climate in Our Nation’s Service’ [...]

    CECE is delighted to announce it has received additional funding from the AmeriCorps Seniors (ACS) program to expand its work on the ‘Climate in Our Nation’s Service’ research project, which is currently underway as part of the three-year collaborative agreement with AmeriCorps.    The additional $1.04 million in funding over two years will help the project […]
  • CECE Announces William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Grant

    CECE is excited to report a generous grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.  The grant will support expanded work on the ‘Climate in Our Nation’s Service’ research project. The funds will expand the CECE team’s capacity to pilot a new climate-focused curriculum and build meaningful indicators to quantify the climate-related work being undertaken […]
  • Call for Proposals CECE Faculty Research Incubator Program 

    The Center for Environment, Community, & Equity is delighted to announce a Call for Submissions to our 2024-2025 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 […]
  • Meet CECE’s Postdoctoral Fellow Abeer Al-Eryani

    This spring CECE welcomed our Postdoctoral Fellow Abeer Al-Eryani. We are grateful to have Abeer join our team and look forward to seeing her great work at CECE. We sat down with Abeer this summer to get to know her a bit better:   Where were you before you arrived at AU?  I came to […]
  • Climate and Sustainability, Environmental Equity and Justice

    CHCI Issue Summit 2024 – Latinos en La Lucha: Climate Challenges and Green [...]

    The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) hosted a dynamic two-day Issue Summit on May 7-8, 2024, focusing on critical issues impacting the nation and the Latino community. Held at the Capital Turnaround, the summit provided a platform for high-level discussions on health, technology, workforce, economic empowerment, and leadership, with a special emphasis on the Latino […]
  • Environmental Equity and Justice

    2024 Nancy Weiser Ignatius Lecture on the Environment Recap

    On April 23rd, American University and SIS hosted Peggy Shepard as the speaker for the 2024 Nancy Weiser Ignatius Lecture on the Environment. Co-founder and Executive Director of WEACT (West Harlem Environmental Action), Peggy Shepard gave a historical overview of the founding of the organization and her ongoing involvement in local and national environmental justice […]
  • Environmental Equity and Justice

    CECE Announce AIR Funded Post-Doctoral Fellowship

    We are excited to announce that CECE has been awarded funding from the American Institute for Research (AIR) to support a Post-Doctoral Fellow for 18 months. The fellow will leverage the existing expertise within CECE’s four focus areas—Climate and Sustainability; Environment, Equity, and Justice; Food, Agriculture, and Land; and Water, Oceans, and Fisheries—to help broaden our educational […]
  • Climate and Sustainability, Environmental Equity and Justice, Food, Agriculture, Land

    CECE Incubator Grant Project: Remote Sensing and Knowledge Co-Production in Northern Haiti

    Right now, Haiti is in a moment of intense political crisis, and gangs in urban Port-au-Prince have a stranglehold on the country’s economy. In the countryside, this means food, medicine, and other commodities are extremely expensive and hard to obtain. In this chaotic moment, this collaborative research continues to support civil society groups who are […]
  • Climate and Sustainability

    WCL Students Visit the Federal Environmental Regulation Commission

    On Tuesday March 26, The Federal Environmental Regulation Commission (FERC) hosted students from the Program on Environmental and Energy Law at the American University Washington College of Law (WCL). The students were greeted by a panel of 4 alumni from WCL whose careers have been significantly shaped by the agency. FERC is an independent federal […]