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  • Star Students Talk Sustainability, and What They’ve Learned

    Star Students Talk Sustainability, and What They’ve Learned

    “The program has given me the chance to acquire a wide range of skills and tools including, but not limited to: GIS analysis, mastering the art of the bucket shower, field methods in ecology, writing about technical environmental issues for a public audience, image processing large-scale data sets in MATLAB, … public speaking, creating effective…

  • Faculty Profile: Ruth DeFries

    Faculty Profile: Ruth DeFries

    What can satellite imagery tell us about the impact of humanity’s transformation of the landscape on climate and ecosystems? A lot, according to Ruth DeFries, ecosystems expert, Denning Professor of Sustainable Development, and professor of ecology, evolution, and environmental biology at Columbia University and the Earth Institute’s Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC). DeFries…

  • Future Sustainability Managers Arrive to Campus

    Future Sustainability Managers Arrive to Campus

    The M.S. in Sustainability Management is welcoming its new class of aspiring sustainability practitioners to campus this week.

  • New Faculty: Nilda Mesa joins the Urban Design Lab

    New Faculty: Nilda Mesa joins the Urban Design Lab

    Nilda Mesa joins the Earth Institute to launch a new program in urban sustainability and equity planning at the Urban Design Lab.

  • Faculty Profile: A. Park Williams, Professor of Climatology

    Faculty Profile: A. Park Williams, Professor of Climatology

    Park Williams, a bioclimatologist whose research focuses on the climatological causes and the ecological consequences of drought, teaches climatology in the summer semester for the MPA in Environmental Science and Policy Program.

  • MPA ESP: Classroom Extends into Community

    MPA ESP: Classroom Extends into Community

    Columbia University’s MPA in Environmental Science and Policy program offers its students learning experiences outside of the classroom unlike any other graduate environmental policy program.

  • A New Course: Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities

    A New Course: Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities

    Read about new MSSM Faculty member Carter Strickland, and how he will bring his expertise in sustainability and environmental policy to the classroom in fall 2016 with a new course: Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities.

  • For Women, a Search for Safety and Community in the City

    For Women, a Search for Safety and Community in the City

    For most people, home is where you feel the safest. In this post, Kaori Yoshida discusses women’s safety in cities through reflecting on topics of community building, root shock and gentrification.

  • Research Assistant Position Opening

    Research Assistant Position Opening

    Interested in research focusing on how philanthropy and cross sector partnerships are addressing critical social concerns? Apply to be a research assistant with Dr. David Maurrasse for fall 2016. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible.

  • Star Students Talk Sustainability, and What They’ve Learned

    Star Students Talk Sustainability, and What They’ve Learned

    “The program has given me the chance to acquire a wide range of skills and tools including, but not limited to: GIS analysis, mastering the art of the bucket shower, field methods in ecology, writing about technical environmental issues for a public audience, image processing large-scale data sets in MATLAB, … public speaking, creating effective…

  • Faculty Profile: Ruth DeFries

    Faculty Profile: Ruth DeFries

    What can satellite imagery tell us about the impact of humanity’s transformation of the landscape on climate and ecosystems? A lot, according to Ruth DeFries, ecosystems expert, Denning Professor of Sustainable Development, and professor of ecology, evolution, and environmental biology at Columbia University and the Earth Institute’s Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC). DeFries…

  • Future Sustainability Managers Arrive to Campus

    Future Sustainability Managers Arrive to Campus

    The M.S. in Sustainability Management is welcoming its new class of aspiring sustainability practitioners to campus this week.

  • New Faculty: Nilda Mesa joins the Urban Design Lab

    New Faculty: Nilda Mesa joins the Urban Design Lab

    Nilda Mesa joins the Earth Institute to launch a new program in urban sustainability and equity planning at the Urban Design Lab.

  • Faculty Profile: A. Park Williams, Professor of Climatology

    Faculty Profile: A. Park Williams, Professor of Climatology

    Park Williams, a bioclimatologist whose research focuses on the climatological causes and the ecological consequences of drought, teaches climatology in the summer semester for the MPA in Environmental Science and Policy Program.

  • MPA ESP: Classroom Extends into Community

    MPA ESP: Classroom Extends into Community

    Columbia University’s MPA in Environmental Science and Policy program offers its students learning experiences outside of the classroom unlike any other graduate environmental policy program.

  • A New Course: Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities

    A New Course: Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities

    Read about new MSSM Faculty member Carter Strickland, and how he will bring his expertise in sustainability and environmental policy to the classroom in fall 2016 with a new course: Environmental Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities.

  • For Women, a Search for Safety and Community in the City

    For Women, a Search for Safety and Community in the City

    For most people, home is where you feel the safest. In this post, Kaori Yoshida discusses women’s safety in cities through reflecting on topics of community building, root shock and gentrification.

  • Research Assistant Position Opening

    Research Assistant Position Opening

    Interested in research focusing on how philanthropy and cross sector partnerships are addressing critical social concerns? Apply to be a research assistant with Dr. David Maurrasse for fall 2016. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible.