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Happy New Year from CECE
CECE would like to wish everyone a happy and healthy 2025. We are excited to continue growing our research and look forward to the opportunities that lie ahead! If you are interested in supporting CECE, please click here for more infomation.
CECE Research Team Kicks-off Climate Corps Pilot with Visits to Vermont and California
This fall, the research team working on the Addressing Climate Change Through Our Nation’s Service Corps Project visited three Climate Corps sites as part of a pilot to study the ways their programs are connecting climate-interested young people and embedding in communities. At each site, Principal Investigator Dana R. Fisher presented a curriculum on the […]
CECE Annouces DataCorps Graduate Fellowship
CECE will inaugurate its new DataCorps Graduate Fellowship Program in the Summer of 2025. The fellowship provides graduate students with an opportunity to learn about activism and engagement centered around disaster response and recovery, as well as gain hands on experience in data collection and evaluation of disaster-related service corps programs and activism. To be […]
CECE Director, Dana R. Fisher, gives a TED Talk
In October 2024, Dr. Dana R. Fisher, gave a TED talk on how to be an “Apocalytic Optimist”, which presents her findings about what it will really take to get us to the other side of the climate crisis based on her latest book, Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Check it out […]
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
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 […]
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 […]