Research
Home to more than two dozen core faculty engaged in 100+ active projects, IBES brings together researchers from across Brown to advance interdisciplinary environmental inquiry.
Advancing knowledge every day
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Empowering people, driving solutions for a sustainable world
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Empowering people, driving solutions for a sustainable world
Today’s problems are complex and interconnected, and so are the solutions.
Addressing the 21st century’s most pressing environmental challenges requires new levels of collaboration and action across disciplines, sectors, and scales of impact.
Through solutions-focused research and education enabled by deep partnerships across Brown and beyond, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES) aims to be an engine of real-world impact and a training ground for the next generation of changemakers building a just, sustainable world. Backed by a bold five-year strategic plan and grounded in a culture that promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, nimble innovation, public engagement, and equitable outcomes, we seek to bolster knowledge-to-action pathways in Providence, across the nation, and around the world.
About IBES
The Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES) is Brown University’s hub for advancing a more resilient and equitable future through interdisciplinary environmental research, teaching, and impact.
Education
IBES is equipping Brown students to turn climate challenges into real-world solutions.
Curious minds welcome
Impact
Through applied research, hands-on learning, and policy engagement, IBES turns knowledge into action.
Meeting the moment
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IBES 101
In this short video, discover how IBES brings together scholars, students, and communities to tackle the world’s toughest environmental challenges.
News & Events
Discover what's happening at IBES, where every story is a step towards a brighter, more sustainable world.
Recent News
All News What does it take to turn a class assignment into a story? Last fall, Brown students in IBES' Science Journalism course investigated environmental issues shaping communities across Providence and saw their work appear in ecoRI News.
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A dual-degree student in Environmental Sciences and Studies and the Rhode Island School of Design’s Illustration Department, Ho studies the gut microbiomes of wild sloths in Costa Rica to map normal variation and test how species, habitat, and rehabilitation status shape these microbial communities.
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Tanguay begins her new role as Visiting Assistant Professor of Environment and Society on August 1.
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This summer, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES) welcomed its first group of students into a new program designed to expand access to faculty-mentored research opportunities in climate and the environment.
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After witnessing pollution in Southern California’s coastal waters as a high school student, Ispendjian founded Saving the Sea. Today, the national nonprofit is helping students translate environmental research into policy and action.
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Assistant Professor Patel is the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society’s first faculty member to be jointly appointed in the Department of Economics.
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