Faculty of Arts and Sciences

2024 Mar 19

The Greener Gender: Women Politicians and Deforestation in Brazil

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

Zoom & CGIS South S216, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge

This paper examines the impact of women’s political representation on deforestation rates in Brazil. Using close election regression discontinuity design, we show that women, when elected to office, are more likely to drive improved environmental outcomes due to factors such as reduced access to corrupt networks that influence the enforcement of environmental laws at the local level.... Read more about The Greener Gender: Women Politicians and Deforestation in Brazil

2024 Mar 27

States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge

The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series presents: “States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean” with Elizabeth R. Williams, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Massachusetts Lowell... Read more about States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean

2024 Feb 28

Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge

The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series presents “Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire” with Faisal Husain, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State... Read more about Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire

2024 Jan 29

EPS Colloquia

12:00pm

Location: 

Geo Museum 102, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

"River Networks as Ecological Corridors for Species, Populations, and Pathogens" with Dr. Andrea Rinaldo, EPFL.

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2023 Dec 18

Invasive Plant Impacts in the Continental United States: Processes, Patterns and Prevention

12:10pm

Location: 

Livestream or Weld Hill Lecture Hall, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

Arnold Arboretum Research Talk: Invasive Plant Impacts in the Continental United States: Processes, Patterns and Prevention with Dan Buonaiuto, NE CASC Postdoctoral Fellow, UMass Amherst.... Read more about Invasive Plant Impacts in the Continental United States: Processes, Patterns and Prevention

2023 Dec 12

Insects in the Anthropocene

7:30pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

Zoom or MCZ 101, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

How will organisms fare in the 21st century as they face extreme environmental conditions and environmental degradation? Developmental plasticity is the ability of an organism to give rise to two or more distinct phenotypes in the face of environmental changes.... Read more about Insects in the Anthropocene

2023 Dec 01

Climate and Sustainability Career Expo

12:30pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

Gutman Conference Center, HGSE, 6 Appian Way, Cambridge

Interested in a career in climate and sustainability? Come connect with over 60 employers, including the World Bank, Ceres, Natural Resources Defense Council, Avangrid, Carbon Reform, the Department of Energy, The Food Project, Green Corps, the MA Attorney General's Office, Morningstar, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, E3 and many more. Registration required, sign up today!... Read more about Climate and Sustainability Career Expo

2023 Nov 29

Locusts of Power

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge

The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series is pleased to present “Locusts of Power”with Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History; Family Dean's Faculty Fellow in Studies of the Middle East, Vanderbilt University... Read more about Locusts of Power

A Conversation About Climate & Solar Geoengineering

October 27, 2023 | Featuring Pascal Lamy, Chair of the Climate Overshoot Commission and Former Director-General of the WTO, and Dan Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Professor of Public Policy; and Co-Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, HKS. Hosted by the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability and Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program.... Read more about A Conversation About Climate & Solar Geoengineering

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