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Registration is now open for At What Point Managed Retreat – Resilience, Relocation and Climate Justice, a virtual conference from June 22-25, 2021, hosted by the Columbia Climate School and the Earth Institute. The conference will bring together stakeholders from the public, private and nonprofit sectors, along with academics, scientists and community… Read More

Within the past year, the Transportation Research Board (TRB), part of the National Academy of Sciences, has formed the Committee on Climate Change and Extreme Weather Adaptation. TRB’s decision to form this committee recognizes the growing importance of community and infrastructure resilience, and the risks posed by a trend of increasing… Read More

On April 21, 2021 the Youth Environmental Alliance for Higher Education (“YEAH!”) Network hosted its 3rd annual international conference on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). College students from around the world submitted abstracts, participated in the abstract peer-review process, moderated panel discussions, and presented their work related to any of… Read More

Vanderbilt Students traveled to Glasgow, Scotland to participate in the international climate change negotiations. The trip involved two Engineering graduate students, and twelve undergraduate students. All twelve undergraduate students were a part of the honors seminar, Climate Change and the Global Response: A Multi-disciplinary Perspective. Read More

The NSF-supported Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education is excited to announce the 3rd annual international, virtual conference for the sustainable development goals.  The conference is for student presenters (undergraduate and graduate) to present their work on the international stage.  You can submit a project or paper you have already… Read More

The 3rd annual YEAH! (Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education) Virtual Conference will be held on April 21, 2021, 1:00-5:00 pm Central Standard Time.  The conference will have opening and closing keystone speakers from accomplished experts in sustainability science and policy from around the globe, and sessions will feature peer-reviewed… Read More

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

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