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Stanford’s Sustainability School: A Good Model?

Legal Planet

Even if a sustainability school is going to recruit additional faculty and staff, there are real administrative costs in launching such a program, not to mention financial ones. Stanford’s move may inspire others to follow. Are these costs worthwhile? Here are the pros and cons. Intellectual Coherence. Sending a Message.

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Awardees of The Environmental Collaboratory’s Inaugural Research Grant

Academy of Natural Sciences

With support from the Office of Research & Innovation, the College of Engineering and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, seven projects were awarded with over $130,000 in total funding. Congratulations to the following awardees!

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Stanford and Beyond

Legal Planet

In May, Stanford grabbed headlines by announcing a billion dollar gift to launch a new School of Sustainability. There hasn’t been much written about the details of Stanford’s effort, or about what other schools are doing along similar lines. school of sustainability in 2006. Columbia has established a new Climate School.

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For Black STEM PhDs, the “D” Also Means Debt

Union of Concerned Scientists

As hard as it is for Black students to earn advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and medicine (STEM) fields, a final insult accompanies the diploma. They leave school dragging a ball and chain of debt far heavier than that for most White graduates. Just 6 percent borrowed more than $40,000.

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Anthracite Mining Heritage Month Activities During January In Northeast PA

PA Environment Daily

A variety of programs will be featured in Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Hazle Township, Ashley, Plymouth, Pittston, Nanticoke, Bethlehem, and Pottsville. The annual event focuses on the history and culture of the anthracite region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. 18; and the Knox Mine Disaster documentary screening on Jan. Schedule -- Jan. Schedule -- Jan.

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Drexel Helps Set Climate Resilience Research Agenda for Philadelphia

Academy of Natural Sciences

The planning team behind the CRRA sought to develop a research agenda that would be informed by both lived experience and research experience,” says Korin Tangtrakul, one of the members of the CRRA planning committee and the sustainability manager of the Sustainable Water Resource Engineering Lab at Drexel.

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California and New York high school students earn EPA’s Patrick H. Hurd Sustainability Award at world’s largest pre-college science career fair

Environmental News Bits

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that two high school seniors earned the agency’s 2022 Patrick H. Hurd Sustainability Award for their research projects at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (Regeneron ISEF) in Atlanta, Georgia.