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Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development news9

  • Alumna Planting ‘Seeds’ for Sustainable Education in Africa

    Alumna Planting ‘Seeds’ for Sustainable Education in Africa

    “What I enjoy the most is that I get to have to opportunity to solve real-life problems that affect hundreds of children and women that are part of our education and community development programs.”

  • Climate Justice Advocate Strives to Create Solutions

    Climate Justice Advocate Strives to Create Solutions

    “Climate adaptation often serves to reinforce existing power structures by focusing on technocratic solutions and empowering experts and policymakers. My research and career goals are framed by this understanding, and I seek to center political and social mechanisms in questions of adaptation.”

  • Spring 2017 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Positions

    Spring 2017 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Positions

    The Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development is currently accepting applications for spring 2017 teaching assistant positions. Applications will only be accepted from graduate students and undergraduate juniors or seniors at Columbia. The deadline to apply is Nov. 21.

  • 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…

  • Earth Institute Fall 2016 Internships

    Earth Institute Fall 2016 Internships

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

  • Fall Undergraduate Research Assistant Opportunities

    Fall Undergraduate Research Assistant Opportunities

    The Earth Institute will offer eight research assistant opportunities for undergraduate students during the fall 2016 semester. Undergraduates from Columbia and Barnard will be able to serve as assistants on research projects related to sustainable development and the environment with distinguished faculty and researchers at the cutting edge of this burgeoning field.

  • Part-Time Summer Internship in the Undergraduate Program

    Part-Time Summer Internship in the Undergraduate Program

    The Earth Institute is offering a part-time internship in the Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development for this summer. The application deadline is June 27.

  • Practical Solutions to Sustainability Issues: Undergraduate Capstone Projects

    Practical Solutions to Sustainability Issues: Undergraduate Capstone Projects

    On April 29, students in the Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development presented practical solutions to sustainability issues and challenges faced by real world clients.

  • Undergraduate Program Fall 2016 Teaching Assistant Positions

    Undergraduate Program Fall 2016 Teaching Assistant Positions

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

  • Alumna Planting ‘Seeds’ for Sustainable Education in Africa

    Alumna Planting ‘Seeds’ for Sustainable Education in Africa

    “What I enjoy the most is that I get to have to opportunity to solve real-life problems that affect hundreds of children and women that are part of our education and community development programs.”

  • Climate Justice Advocate Strives to Create Solutions

    Climate Justice Advocate Strives to Create Solutions

    “Climate adaptation often serves to reinforce existing power structures by focusing on technocratic solutions and empowering experts and policymakers. My research and career goals are framed by this understanding, and I seek to center political and social mechanisms in questions of adaptation.”

  • Spring 2017 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Positions

    Spring 2017 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Positions

    The Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development is currently accepting applications for spring 2017 teaching assistant positions. Applications will only be accepted from graduate students and undergraduate juniors or seniors at Columbia. The deadline to apply is Nov. 21.

  • 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…

  • Earth Institute Fall 2016 Internships

    Earth Institute Fall 2016 Internships

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

  • Fall Undergraduate Research Assistant Opportunities

    Fall Undergraduate Research Assistant Opportunities

    The Earth Institute will offer eight research assistant opportunities for undergraduate students during the fall 2016 semester. Undergraduates from Columbia and Barnard will be able to serve as assistants on research projects related to sustainable development and the environment with distinguished faculty and researchers at the cutting edge of this burgeoning field.

  • Part-Time Summer Internship in the Undergraduate Program

    Part-Time Summer Internship in the Undergraduate Program

    The Earth Institute is offering a part-time internship in the Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development for this summer. The application deadline is June 27.

  • Practical Solutions to Sustainability Issues: Undergraduate Capstone Projects

    Practical Solutions to Sustainability Issues: Undergraduate Capstone Projects

    On April 29, students in the Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development presented practical solutions to sustainability issues and challenges faced by real world clients.

  • Undergraduate Program Fall 2016 Teaching Assistant Positions

    Undergraduate Program Fall 2016 Teaching Assistant Positions

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