Announcement
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. […]
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:
CECE Whitepaper No. 3: Workforce Development and the 4Rs in California and Vermont
How are service corps programs supporting communities as they build resilience, respond to and recover from disaster, and work to reduce their emissions? This paper provides insights into who is working in such service corps programs, what are their motivations for serving, and how they hope to contribute to creating more resilient communities. The study […]
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 […]
Cosequences of Environmental Rollbacks Will Have a Wide Range of Impacts
Dr. Julie A. González, Environmental Justice Postdoctoral Fellow at CECE, was interviewed by La Opinión, Los Angeles’ leading Spanish-language news outlet, to discuss the consequences of recent environmental policy rollbacks under the current administration. The conversation highlighted how weakened protections exacerbate environmental injustices in Latino communities, while also threatening national public health infrastructure and economic […]
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 […]
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 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 […]