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Ethan Coffel awarded three-year NSF grant to study climate-crop cycle

April 22, 2021
Coffel, professor of geography and the environment, hopes to use crop-climate cycles as a way to assess the future risk of climate-driven food insecurity.

See related: Climate and Climate Change , Environment & Society , Agriculture , Physical Geography

Reeher Discusses Biden's Infrastructure Plan in National Interest

April 5, 2021
Professor Grant Reeher is included in the National Interest article, "Joe Biden to Unveil Infrastructure Package Tomorrow. What Will it Include?" 

See related: American Politics , Government , Infrastructure , Climate and Climate Change

Popp weighs in on Biden's green stimulus spending in NY Times, Guardian

March 31, 2021
"Unless they can pair it with a policy that forces people to reduce emissions, a big spending bill doesn’t have a big impact," says David Popp, professor of public administration and international affairs. But, he adds, "spending money is politically easier than passing policies to cut emissions."

See related: Economy , Spending , Climate and Climate Change , Policy , State and Local

Sultana reviews Global Gobeshona Conference in Dhaka Tribune

March 9, 2021
"Given that climate change impacts the most vulnerable across the world, yet the voices of the vulnerable are always not heard or heeded sufficiently in high-level planning and decision-making, conferences like the Global Gobeshona Conference enhance opportunities to have different voices and positionalities to be present in spaces of global knowledge sharing," writes Farhana Sultana, associate professor of geography and the environment.

See related: Climate and Climate Change , Population Studies

Coffel discusses his thermal power and climate research in Ecological Society of America journal

March 4, 2021
Ethan Coffel, assistant professor of geography and the environment, discusses his recent study on thermal power and climate change in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, a journal of the Ecological Society of America.

See related: Electricity , Renewable Energy , Climate and Climate Change , Natural Resources , Sustainability

Popp discusses Biden's green jobs agenda in Forbes article

January 19, 2021
"Wages in solar and wind could increase if demand increased, at least initially," says Professor David Popp, who wrote about the impact of fiscal policy on green jobs in a working paper in June 2020. "But higher wages would also attract more workers to develop the skills to work in wind and solar, so the increase need not be permanent."

See related: Spending , Energy , Renewable Energy , Natural Resources , Sustainability , United States , Government

Steinberg provides insight into what to expect globally in 2021 on TVO

January 14, 2021
University Professor James Steinberg was a guest on TVO's "The Agenda" to discuss what he witnessed in 2020 and what he expects will play out around the world in 2021.

See related: COVID-19 , State and Local , Climate and Climate Change

Coffel explores power and climate struggle in new research paper

January 4, 2021

See related: Energy , Environment & Society , Climate and Climate Change

Bendix explores solutions to the western wildfire crisis in The Hill

October 8, 2020

See related: Environment & Society , Forest Fires , Climate and Climate Change

Bridging Strengths

June 1, 2020
With cluster and other prioritized hires, Maxwell is helping the University build research strength on topics that cross disciplines.

See related: Health, Aging & Life Course, Disability , Aging , Policy , Technology , Future of Work , Ethics of Autonomous Systems , Climate and Climate Change , Social Policy (Aging, Education, Health, Welfare) , Environmental Policy & Administration , Data Analytics for Public Policy , Energy , Autonomous Systems

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