The Brown community recognized Professors Meredith Hastings and Myles Lennon for their outstanding support of students in the classroom, the lab, and beyond.

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.

VanSickle brings expertise in climate, health, and community engagement to support Equitable Climate Futures and the Academic Climate Leadership Group.

As a featured speaker in the Brown Seminar Series on Environment and Society, Providence College's Thea Riofrancos examined the political ecology of the energy transition, drawing on extensive fieldwork and research across Latin America, the United States, and Europe.

John Fullerton, founder of the Capital Institute and former JPMorgan managing director, joined IBES' Professor Ricardo Bayon for a fireside chat.

Professors Stephen Porder and Timmons Roberts offered research-driven perspectives on climate change, energy policy, and equity during recent testimonies to state policymakers, urging them to stay the course on Rhode Island’s climate commitments.

Brown’s Community Noise Lab — led by Erica Walker, an IBES affiliate and Catalyst Research Awardee at the Schoo of Public Health — and Tougaloo College have installed a high-tech air quality monitoring station on Tougaloo’s campus in Mississippi.

IBES faculty affiliates Jeff Colgan (Professor of Political Science and Director of the Climate Solutions Lab) and Brad Marston (Professor of Physics) offered positive commentary about energy from a new Rhode Island offshore wind farm.

A dashboard recently launched by the RI Network for Environmental Sensing and Technology—part of a larger IBES-based initiative on coastal climate resilience—provides real-time data on water levels, air quality, and temperature to better inform stakeholders.

IBES affiliate Shanti Morell-Hart, an associate professor of archaeology and anthropology, provided commentary on new research about how an ancient Maya settlement in Belize appears to have outlasted droughts by relying on local wetlands. 

Professor Timmons Roberts questioned legislators about proposed cuts to climate and energy programs in Rhode Island.

IBES and Sociology Professor J. Timmons Roberts William Kattrup '25 contributed to this study.

DEEPS Professor and IBES Fellow Baylor Fox-Kemper co-authored this study, which reveals how small-scale ocean processes have substantial effects on global model results.

IBES and Epidemiology Professor Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou is among the co-authors of a recent study that links tropical cyclones to spikes in drug-related deaths for months after impact.