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National Endowment for the Arts

NEA Big Read Introduces New Books and Theme, “Our Nature”

IBES Fellow Elizabeth Rush's newest book, The Quickening, was selected to be a part of the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read initiative. This year's theme is “Our Nature: How Our Physical Environment Can Lead Us to Seek Hope, Courage, and Connection.”
Matrix New World

Olga Abinader Guests on ‘The Joy of Living’

Olga Abinader, an IBES advisory council member and director of environmental review and land use planning at Matrix New World, discussed Hispanic Heritage Month and her role in encouraging more women and people of color to consider STEM careers on a recent podcast episode.
VoxDev

How do floods impact economic development?

Dev Patel, a Prize Fellow at Harvard and incoming IBES professor, spoke on this podcast about his research measuring floods, their impacts, and the adaptation decisions of households.

Science

Support US OCTOPUS Act to keep octopuses wild

IBES Lecturer Mindi Schneider and 99 fellow authors advocate in favor of the OCTOPUS Act: a proposed federal law that would prohibit commercial octopus aquaculture in the US and the import of commercially farmed octopus.
Nature

How to win funding to talk about your science

Voss Postdoctoral Researcher Lina Pérez-Angel, who co-founded a bilingual science communication platform called GeoLchat, noted that "Science communication is as real and as hard as doing research."