Announcement
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
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 […]
AU Welcomes Nicole Darnall, The Arlene R. and Robert P. Kogod Eminent Scholar Chair in [...]
Nicole Darnall is a distinguished scholar in sustainability who was recently appointed as the Arlene R. and Robert P. Kogod Eminent Scholar Chair in Sustainability at American University. Previously, she served as a Foundation Professor and Associate Dean at Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability. Darnall was also the director of ASU’s Sustainable Purchasing Research […]
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 […]
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 […]