Tag: Climate change

University of Maryland, College Park to Hire More Faculty of Color, Cut Carbon Footprint and Invest More in Research

The University of Maryland in College Park will hire more faculty of color, cut carbon emissions and increase investments in research, Dr. Darryll J. Pines, the school’s president announced Thursday, The Washington Post reported. The school will be using $40 million over five years to support more than 100 new faculty from underrepresented groups, the […]

April 23, 2021

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Starbucks Creates Community Resilience Fund

Starbucks has created the Starbucks Community Resilience Fund to invest $100 million by 2025 in projects for racial equity and environmental resilience, PhillyVoice reported. Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington, D.C. were the 12 regions chosen for the initiative. The coffee […]

January 20, 2021

Coronavirus Silver lining—Online Learning?

Let’s face it. Learning isn’t about entering in engaged conversation while standing in togas. It’s the changing world of teaching a younger generation already well attuned to technology. Coronavirus fears have resulted in some unintended positive consequences.

March 11, 2020

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Georgetown Joins List of Schools Divesting from Fossil Fuel Companies

Amid pressure from student activists, Georgetown University announced it will stop investing its endowment funding in fossil fuel companies and will withdraw all previous investments in those firms. The Jesuit school cited Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, which called for the church to combat climate change, as one of its reasons for divesting. “The […]

February 10, 2020

2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Maria Rosa

An elementary school classroom activity called the “reading rainbow,” which highlighted the day in the life of various careers, sparked Dr. Maria Rosa’s desire to pursue marine biology. One of the books she had read focused on a female marine biologist who worked with sea turtles both inside and outside the lab.

January 30, 2020

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Save the Climate and Yourself — Ban the Burger on Campus

If your campus is green energy-wise but you’re still buying all-beef hamburgers and the like in the school cafeteria, your school isn’t green enough.In the 60’s, they burned bras and draft cards. American schools should start burning burgers leading to an outright ban of beef on campus like they’re doing at Goldsmiths college of the University of London.

August 26, 2019

Climate Change is a Diversity Issue for Higher Ed

The extreme heat this year has turned much of my state into a giant tinderbox. I’ve seen the smoke of major wildfires both north and east of me reach my home. Even without the fires, I am in a rural part of the state, where dairies and their cows contribute huge amounts of methane, known to be far worse than the emissions from cars and trucks.

September 17, 2018

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Kelp, Climate, Ocean Acidity Research Funded

BRUNSWICK – The University of Maine says projects about seaweed, the acidity of Gulf of Maine waters and the way climate change is impacting fish will receive nearly $1 million in funding. The university says the funds are being awarded to faculty at UMaine and other institutions through the Maine Sea Grant College Program. The […]

February 19, 2018

Colleges Look to Encourage More Minorities to Study the Environment

As the world responds to climate change, what is the role universities can play in ensuring people of color and those from marginalized backgrounds are part of the solution?

November 29, 2017

Higher Ed Must Take Initiative to Reduce Carbon Footprint

After Thursday’s announcement that the U.S. is pulling out of the Paris Accord on climate change, it’s unclear who is suffering the most from gassy, hot air — the world, or Donald Trump.

June 4, 2017

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Universities: Trump Climate Decision Creates Uncertainty

BOULDER, Colo. — A consortium of U.S. universities that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research says President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the nation out of an international agreement on climate creates new uncertainties. In a statement Thursday, Antonio Busalacchi, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, stopped short of explicitly criticizing the […]

June 1, 2017

University of Washington Gets $210M from Gates Foundation

SEATTLE ― The University of Washington is getting $210 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help build a new facility to advance efforts to improve the health and well-being of people around the world, officials said Tuesday. The donation from the largest private foundation in the world, located just miles from the […]

October 25, 2016

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