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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 […]
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 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 climate, as well as gain hands on experience in data collection and evaluation of climate-related service corps programs and activism. To be eligible for the […]
Why Aren’t the Presidential Candidates Talking Much About Climate Change? – Recap
Why is climate change not a bigger issue in the 2024 electoral campaign? The Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act were some of the nation’s most successful legislative achievements of the last decade, and they were all initiated also by the executive […]
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 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 Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow Julie A. Gonzalez
This spring CECE welcomed our Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow Julie A. Gonzalez. Julie’s position is funded by a grant from the American Institutes for Research Equity Initiative. We are grateful to have Julie join our team and look forward to seeing her great work at CECE. We sat down with Julie this summer to get to know […]
CECE Annual Report 2023-2024
CECE has released its inaugural annual report. The report reflects on the 2023-2024 academic year and sets a vision for the years to come. Please read the full report here:
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 […]