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WATCH | Commencement Forum: Ocean Health, Our Health

IBES' 2026 Commencement Forum brought students, alumni, families, and community members together at the Watson School of International and Public Affairs and online for a conversation on the future of ocean science, climate resilience, plastics, and environmental policy.
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Commencement 2026: Photos, videos, and highlights

Commencement Weekend offered a chance to celebrate the accomplishments of the Class of 2026 and the relationships and sense of purpose that connect the IBES community across generations.
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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.
May 11, 2026 News from Around Brown

Equitable Climate Futures announces 2026 Research Awards

One year after announcing its inaugural set of four working groups, Brown’s Equitable Climate Futures initiative (ECF), led by the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), has determined a second cohort of awardees, with projects ranging from local environmental justice to Indigenous climate action in the Amazon.

IBES' 2025 Annual Report

See how IBES is driving the climate conversations and solutions our world needs most through bold collaboration and boundary-crossing research.

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Making Headlines

Noteworthy articles featuring the work of the IBES faculty, researchers, and scholars in the media

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Los Angeles Review of Books

Competing Visions of China’s Distant Past

This review covers Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society Brian Lander's book, “The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire.”
Streetsblog USA

Talking Headways Podcast: Community Severance by Road

IBES and Epidemiology Professor Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou discussed her new paper on how community severance by road infrastructure increases mental health hospital visits in New York City.

Published Research

The most recent research published by IBES community members

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Nature Medicine

Climate change and infectious diseases

Rachel Baker, an assistant professor in IBES and the Department of Epidemiology, and Aleksandra Stamper, an IBES graduate affiliate in the School of Public Health, are the first and second authors, respectively, of this review paper.

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