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Student Spotlights
IBES students are the next generation of thoughtful environmental leaders and powerful agents of change.
Student Spotlights
IBES students are the next generation of thoughtful environmental leaders and powerful agents of change.
Summer in focus
Step into the field with IBES undergraduates as they share first-person clips from their summer internships and research opportunities.
Featured Stories
Explore written articles featuring IBES undergraduates and their work.
Recent News
View all IBES News Supported by IBES faculty and alumni mentors, a team of Brown undergraduates advanced to the finals of the Turner MIINT Competition and placed third overall against dozens of graduate teams from around the world.
IBES-affiliated students named 2026 Royce Fellows
Through the Swearer Center program, eight students affiliated with IBES will conduct community-engaged research spanning environmental justice, food sovereignty, conservation biology, and Indigenous land stewardship.
Meet Voss Fellow Liza Marcus ’26: Tracing the chemistry of air pollution, one isotope at a time
Dual concentrator Liza Marcus ’26 is unraveling the complex chemistry of nitrogen oxides and ozone in the atmosphere — work that could improve air quality predictions and inform environmental policy.
Meet Voss Fellow Sofia Kassalow ’26: Turning DNA from parasitic worms into a publicly accessible database
Kassalow, an Environmental Sciences & Studies concentrator on the conservation science and natural systems track, analyzes samples of parasitic worms found in tropical mammals to expand a scientific database for use by researchers.
IBES faculty members win University teaching and mentorship awards
The Brown community recognized Professors Meredith Hastings and Myles Lennon for their outstanding support of students in the classroom, the lab, and beyond.
Brown’s first Climate Week, led by IBES, sparks campus-wide climate conversations
What does it take to confront the climate crisis, and where do we all fit in? This March, Brown students, faculty, staff, and community members came together across the campus to explore a wide range of answers.
Meet Voss Fellow Piete Gatesi ’27: Balancing safety, performance, and durability in formulating the next alternative battery
Gatesi, an Engineering Physics and ENVS concentrator, is researching “the most promising alternative” to standard lithium ion batteries by manipulating Lithium Lanthanum Zirconium Tantalum Oxide (LLZTO) to be more sustainable.
IBES Voss Fellows bring climate research to the community
Members of the 2025-2026 Voss Undergraduate Fellowship cohort have shared their research with local audiences through the Conversations in Science series at Providence’s Hamilton House.
A decade of discovery: Voss fellowships turn curiosity into climate and sustainability solutions
Ten years of research projects, countless ideas, one shared mission: to build a sustainable future.