Miriam Leibowitz

Vanderbilt University, as part of the NSF funded Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education (“YEAH”) network, participated in the development and launch of the first international YEAH Conference. The Conference, called “SDGS for the SDGs: Students Doing Goal-Oriented Science for the Sustainable Development Goals, was an international, on-line event where students from across the globe… Read More

With this award from the National Science Foundation, Vanderbilt joins the Youth Environment Alliance in Higher Education (YEAH), a multi-university network aimed at training undergraduate life science students to be future leaders at the science-policy interface. Students and Professors from nearly a dozen universities and colleges across the country and… Read More

Vanderbilt’s inaugural trip to the UN COP! VU Students are interviewed by the BBC on youth perspectives VU Senior Kelson Reiss presents at the United Nations COP25 Vanderbilt students participated in the 25th Conference of the Parties (“COP25”)to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Madrid,… Read More

Dr. Leah Dundon will be teaching a new undergraduate Honors Seminar this Fall 2019 semester titled “Climate Change and the Global Response:  A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective.”  The class will be a truly interdisciplinary look at the challenges, opportunities, and potential solutions to climate change.  A few students will have the opportunity… Read More

February 22, 2019 VCCI researchers lead mock international climate change negotiations at annual STEM day with students from Harpeth Hall and Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville.  Students acted as delegates representing specific countries or United Nations negotiating blocs, and worked to negotiate specific agreements regarding financing to developing countries, green… Read More

The 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Katowice, Poland, in December, 2018. COP24 saw two weeks filled with sometimes tense negotiations aimed at completing the “Paris Rulebook,” a set of rules by which countries will operate as… Read More

December 2018 — VCCI Director Dr. Leah Dundon tours Alstom train manufacturing in Katowice, Poland during COP24. Alstom has developed the world’s first hydrogen train, now in passenger service in Germany. Read More