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  • Additional Teaching Assistant Positions for Spring 2016

    Additional Teaching Assistant Positions for Spring 2016

    The Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development is currently accepting applications for spring 2016 teaching assistant positions.

  • India Steps Up on Climate Change

    India Steps Up on Climate Change

    As a nation still in its developing phase, with 1.25 billion citizens and counting, India can’t afford to forego even part of its industrial progress. But we also cannot go on developing without taking into account the emissions produced by industries that are major contributors to global warming.

  • Earth Institute Spring 2016 Internships

    Earth Institute Spring 2016 Internships

    This spring, the Earth Institute is offering Columbia students opportunities to intern within various departments and research centers at the institute. All full-time Columbia and Barnard students are eligible to apply.

  • Spring 2016 Undergraduate Research Assistant Opportunities

    Spring 2016 Undergraduate Research Assistant Opportunities

    The Earth Institute will offer nine research assistant opportunities for undergraduate students during the Spring 2016 semester.

  • The Catskill Watershed: a Story of Sacrifice and Cooperation

    The Catskill Watershed: a Story of Sacrifice and Cooperation

    It has become so easy for us here in NYC to turn on the tap without realizing the hardship, unimaginable sacrifices and money that have allowed us this incredible resource at the mere flick of a finger. We returned to the downstream end of the aqueducts with a newfound appreciation of the hard work we…

  • Alaska: Hotspot for Oil and Climate Change

    Alaska: Hotspot for Oil and Climate Change

    In September, Shell Oil abandoned its offshore oil drilling projects in the Alaskan Arctic. Why is Arctic drilling so controversial and what impacts will Shell’s announcement have?

  • Faculty Profile: Upmanu Lall

    Faculty Profile: Upmanu Lall

      As he explained in a recent issue of Columbia Engineering, for Professor Upmanu Lall, “the goal of engineering is to develop solutions to societal problems.” Over three decades a hydrologist, Lall has focused on the societal problems associated with water: from severe water shortages that are expected to occur in one-third of the developing…

  • Teaching Assistant Positions for Spring 2016

    Teaching Assistant Positions for Spring 2016

    The Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development is currently accepting applications for spring 2016 teaching assistant positions.

  • Antarctica’s Wildlife in a Changing Climate

    Antarctica’s Wildlife in a Changing Climate

    We hear a lot about polar bears and other Arctic mammals in connection to climate change, but what about biodiversity in Antarctica?

  • Additional Teaching Assistant Positions for Spring 2016

    Additional Teaching Assistant Positions for Spring 2016

    The Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development is currently accepting applications for spring 2016 teaching assistant positions.

  • India Steps Up on Climate Change

    India Steps Up on Climate Change

    As a nation still in its developing phase, with 1.25 billion citizens and counting, India can’t afford to forego even part of its industrial progress. But we also cannot go on developing without taking into account the emissions produced by industries that are major contributors to global warming.

  • Earth Institute Spring 2016 Internships

    Earth Institute Spring 2016 Internships

    This spring, the Earth Institute is offering Columbia students opportunities to intern within various departments and research centers at the institute. All full-time Columbia and Barnard students are eligible to apply.

  • Spring 2016 Undergraduate Research Assistant Opportunities

    Spring 2016 Undergraduate Research Assistant Opportunities

    The Earth Institute will offer nine research assistant opportunities for undergraduate students during the Spring 2016 semester.

  • The Catskill Watershed: a Story of Sacrifice and Cooperation

    The Catskill Watershed: a Story of Sacrifice and Cooperation

    It has become so easy for us here in NYC to turn on the tap without realizing the hardship, unimaginable sacrifices and money that have allowed us this incredible resource at the mere flick of a finger. We returned to the downstream end of the aqueducts with a newfound appreciation of the hard work we…

  • Alaska: Hotspot for Oil and Climate Change

    Alaska: Hotspot for Oil and Climate Change

    In September, Shell Oil abandoned its offshore oil drilling projects in the Alaskan Arctic. Why is Arctic drilling so controversial and what impacts will Shell’s announcement have?

  • Faculty Profile: Upmanu Lall

    Faculty Profile: Upmanu Lall

      As he explained in a recent issue of Columbia Engineering, for Professor Upmanu Lall, “the goal of engineering is to develop solutions to societal problems.” Over three decades a hydrologist, Lall has focused on the societal problems associated with water: from severe water shortages that are expected to occur in one-third of the developing…

  • Teaching Assistant Positions for Spring 2016

    Teaching Assistant Positions for Spring 2016

    The Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development is currently accepting applications for spring 2016 teaching assistant positions.

  • Antarctica’s Wildlife in a Changing Climate

    Antarctica’s Wildlife in a Changing Climate

    We hear a lot about polar bears and other Arctic mammals in connection to climate change, but what about biodiversity in Antarctica?