Stephanie Spera, a PhD student in the department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, will spend a semester during the 2015-2016 academic year teaching a course at nearby Wheaton College through the Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellowship program. This program aims to highlight the differences between academic careers based at liberal arts colleges and those based at research universities.

Spera feels that her interdisciplinary background as an IBES graduate student will be invaluable to her teaching experience at Wheaton. "The class I'm teaching on climatology is housed in the Physics department but pulls students from other disciplines," she explained. "This will allow me to use the skills I've gained by learning from and collaborating with sociologists, economists, and ecologists."

To read the full story about Spera and the Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellowship, visit the Graduate School website here.