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Graduate Certificate in Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE²) Applications Now Open
The Graduate Certificate in Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE²) equips students with knowledge and preparation to address a growing set of challenges at the intersection of environmental protection, community resilience, and equity. Enhance your Master’s degree, skills, and visibility in the job market with one of these certificates in addition to your master’s degree. With careful course planning, it […]
Welcome to the CECE Graduate Certificate’s New Cohort!
CECE is proud to announce the eight new additions to the Graduate Certificate for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE2). This marks the third cohort to join the program who will be trained with the knowledge and preparation to address a growing set of challenges at the intersection of environmental protection, community resilience, and equity. The […]
Happy New Year from CECE
CECE would like to wish everyone a happy and healthy 2026. 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 Announces Second Year of the Data Corps Graduate Fellowship Program
CECE is excited to announce a second year of the Data Corps Graduate Fellowship Program in the Summer of 2026. The fellowship provides graduate students with an opportunity to learn about civic engagement centered around community resilience and disaster response and recovery. During the 2-month program, students will gain hands on experience in data collection […]
Meet CECE’s Postdoctoral Fellow Natalia Piland
Where were you before you arrived at AU? Immediately before arriving at AU, I was employed in the USDA Northern Research Station, part of the research arm of the U.S. Forest Service. My team focused on environmental stewardship, thinking broadly about how people across sectors care for their surroundings using methods that span from qualitative […]
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 […]
CECE Annual Report 2024-2025
CECE has released its second annual report. The report reflects on the 2024-2025 academic year and sets a vision for the years to come. Please read the full report here:
Three New Students Added to CECE Graduate Certificate
CECE is proud to announce the three new additions to the Graduate Certificate for Environment, Community, & Equity (CECE2). The three students are joining the initial cohort who will be trained with the knowledge and preparation to address a growing set of challenges at the intersection of environmental protection, community resilience, and equity. The culmination […]
CECE Cohort Building: Environmental Justice and Community Connections
On April 18, members of the Certificate of the Environment, Community & Equity (CECE2) cohort, together with faculty and staff of the Center for Environment, Community & Equity (CECE), attended a performance of the environmental justice-themed play “cullud wattah” at Mosaic Theater in Washington, D.C. The play explores the Flint, Michigan water crisis, offering a […]
Data Corps Gradute Fellowship Program Application is Now Open
Applications are now open for CECE’s new DataCorps Graduate Fellowship Program starting 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 […]
Meet CECE’s Civic Engagement and Activism Postdoctoral Fellow Arman Azedi
In January CECE welcomed our Civic Engagement and Activism Postdoctoral Fellow Arman Azedi. We are grateful to have Arman join our team and look forward to seeing his great work at CECE. We sat down with Arman to get to know him a bit better: Where were you before you arrived at AU? I recently completed […]
CECE Annouces Inaugural Graduate Certificate Cohort
CECE is proud to announce the inaugural cohort of the Graduate Certificate for Environment, Community, & Equity. The cohort will be trained with the knowledge and preparation to address a growing set of challenges at the intersection of environmental protection, community resilience, and equity. The culmination of the certificate will be a capstone report focused […]