Announcement
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 […]Book: Development in Africa’s Informal Settlements: Below the Proletariat
Dr. Angela Pashaya, professor at American University’s School of International Service, launched her new book on February 1st. With over 60% of Africans living in slums, her new book Development in Africa’s Informal Settlements: Below the Proletariat includes ethnography, quantitative and quantitative research centered on the effectiveness of international development programs in African informal settlements […]Environmentally Focused Food Brand Eat The Change Partners with CECE for Events
Eat The Change believes in breaking down barriers and pushing boundaries, not just in their food and beverage choices but in their beliefs and actions. Eat the Change® is a Bethesda, MD based company created by activist entrepreneur and creator of Honest Tea, Seth Goldman and celebrity chef, Spike Mendelsohn. Their mission is inspired by […]CECE Announces Inaugural Faculty Research Incubator Grants
This fall, the Center for Environment, Community, and Equity commenced the CECE Faculty Research Incubator Program: a new funding program designed to launch exciting, interdisciplinary work on the environment conducted by faculty teams from programs across campus. By the end of the academic year, teams are expected to have built out their projects, piloted the […]The Climate Story Gaps Project: Locating Untold Climate Intersections in Washington, D.C.
The first project of the inaugural Faculty Research Incubator Program is entitled “The Climate Story Gaps Project: Locating Untold Climate Intersections in Washington, D.C.”. The research team is made up of professors from both the School of Communication and the School of International Service. Dr. Rosalind Donald (School of Communication), Dr. Malini Ranganathan (SIS), Dr. […]Remote Sensing and Knowledge Co-Production in Northern Haiti
The second research project from the Faculty Research Incubator Program comes from a collaboration across the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of International Service. Entitled “Remote Sensing and Knowledge Co-Production in Northern Haiti,” this project by Dr. Michael Alonzo (CAS) and Dr. Scott Freeman (SIS) focuses on co-producing knowledge about land and environment […]