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The global nitrous oxide budget

涩里番下载 researchers lead comprehensive worldwide assessment of potent greenhouse gas.
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Latest round of seed grant winners announced

The Schiller Institute has announced its latest cohort of grant recipients in the SI-GECS and SI-RITEA programs. Learn more about the projects that will be conducted during the upcoming academic year.
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Case competition gets students involved in dining sustainability

Teams of undergraduates took part in a case competition in support of 涩里番下载 Dining鈥檚 efforts to reduce food waste and increase the adoption of sustainable dinnerware during the second annual Eagles Sustainability Competition.
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Across the disciplines

涩里番下载 faculty and students team up for a project team up for a project targeting infant malnutrition.
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Interdisciplinary researchers tend to be more collaborative, curious, and intellectually humble
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Harvesting energy from CO2

涩里番下载 scientist Jier Huang works toward launch of a sunlight-powered catalyst.
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Hanqin Tian to lead new Schiller Institute center

Tian will direct the Center for Earth Systems Science and Global Sustainability
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Dispatches from Dubai

Faculty and students attending the COP28 U.N. Climate Change Conference briefed the 涩里番下载 community live online
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Shaky ground

Historian Conevery Bolton Valencius explores the impact of human-caused earthquakes.
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Associate director named for 涩里番下载 Global Public Health program

涩里番下载SSW's Summer Sherburne Hawkins assumes the inaugural role.
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A climate for opportunity

涩里番下载 undergrads consider careers related to climate change.
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A Wide Search for New Core Faculty Begins鈥擶ith A Focus on Health

The Schiller Institute is looking for three new people to join its team. Two will be scientists who study the effects of the changing climate on health. The third will be a social scientist.
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Schiller鈥檚 New Senior Research Fellow Studies How Organizations Can Be More Collaborative and Community-Oriented

Schiller welcomes its new Senior Research Fellow, Javiera Garcia-Meneses, Ph.D. As a specialist in psychology and social transformations, she鈥檒l examine how interdisciplinary centers are structured and managed, and how to boost collaboration across departments.
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New Home for Schiller Institute Core Faculty鈥檚 Collaborative Computational Research

涩里番下载鈥檚 Service building has undergone significant renovations, including a state-of-the-art computational research facility designed to foster collaboration.
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Schiller-led Committee Helps Shape Future of Data Science Education at 涩里番下载

Proposals for a 涩里番下载 master鈥檚 degree and a minor concentration in Data Science were refined by an interdisciplinary committee of educators, led by the Schiller Institute.
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Plastic pollution

涩里番下载 hosts panel discussion on UN plastics treaty.
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A Wide Search for New Core Faculty Begins鈥擶ith A Focus on Health

The Schiller Institute is looking for three new people to join its team. Two will be scientists who study the effects of the changing climate on health. The third will be a social scientist.
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NSF CAREER award for Avneet Hira

Grant will support her work promoting fluency in engineering and tech among among underserved youth.
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Restorative gardening

NSF-supported 涩里番下载 project is designed to empower low-income youth.
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Influential scientists

涩里番下载 researchers David Broido and Hanqin Tian are among 2022鈥檚 Highly Cited Researchers.
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Community Engaged Course Hones Students鈥� Intercultural Aptitude

A new Schiller class sees students work with residents in Cambodia to solve local eco-related problems. Students will develop community-identified projects and learn how to build partnerships with people of different cultures.
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NISS Gold Honor Medal

Global Public Health Program Director Prof. Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., is recognized by the National Institute of Social Sciences.
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New major in Global Public Health and the Common Good

Highly competitive undergraduate program emphasizes both scientific and social dimensions of public health.
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涩里番下载 group headed to COP27

A delegation of faculty and students will attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt.
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245 Beacon Street celebration

Nobel laureate Paul Romer keynotes an event to formally open 涩里番下载鈥檚 new integrated science building.
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Study will explore vaccine hesitancy

Faculty at 涩里番下载 School of Social Work and Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health aim to address the issue among Latinx people with mental illness.
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Kids and Disasters

As catastrophic events become more frequent, 涩里番下载's Betty Lai is researching how to promote recovery and resilience in children.
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涩里番下载 researchers to test trauma interventions

涩里番下载 School of Social Work initiative focuses on millions affected by violence and upheaval in Colombia and Venezuela.
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Schiller Institute grants

Awards will support collaborate research projects by faculty and researchers across the University.
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涩里番下载 to partner on study of hazards from plastics

An international team will survey health risks posed across the continuum of plastic production, use, and disposal.
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涩里番下载 School of Social Work study evaluates senior job training program

The nation's only federal work-based job training program for older, low-income adults provides important physical and mental health benefits as well as financial support, study finds.
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The power of positive peer pressure

An interdisciplinary team of 涩里番下载 researchers will explore how social norms can be leveraged to promote virtuous behavior.
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涩里番下载 welcomes new faculty

A 'diverse, accomplished' cohort of 63 full-time faculty members joins the University this academic year,
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Simulated WHO session

涩里番下载 undergrads take part in negotiations surrounding the World Health Organization鈥檚 COVID-19 response.
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Lessons learned at COP26

涩里番下载 attendees at the U.N. Climate Change Conference reflect on takeaways and the road from here.
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Culturally responsive care

涩里番下载 School of Social Work researcher explores how racism and sexism hamper interventions to improve mental health, especially in young people.
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Building connections

涩里番下载's Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society鈥攁 much-anticipated locus of interdisciplinary work鈥攊s developing its first initiatives.
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Schiller Institute awards inaugural grants

Fifteen grants will support collaborative projects by faculty and researchers from across 涩里番下载.
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涩里番下载 hosts ImpACCt Design Summit

Competition for students from 涩里番下载 and other ACC schools involved application of design thinking.
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