Event Type: Online only Reducing energy and plastic use in research labs will make a huge impact on our emissions. Learn how you can make a difference in your lab and connect with the Rutgers Green Labs Initiative during this interactive webinar. Presenter: Marcela Rodriguez, Associate Professor of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Member, Rutgers Health Climate Action Group; Lead, ...
Speaker: Tom Rudel, Prof Emeritus, Rutgers University Abstract: The contours of the collective action necessary to limit climate change remain difficult to discern. In this context, corporatist political processes, fueled by crisis narratives, have shown some promise as political devices for facilitating natural climate solutions. Corporatist processes have, historically, brought together political competitors like employers and labor unions within an ...
Speaker: Gea-Jae Joo, Pusan National University. More information here.
Event Format: In-person Abstract: This year, Rutgers Center for Environmental Exposures and Disease (CEED) is offering a series of webinars dealing with the health impacts of indoor environments in partnership with parents, nonprofit leaders, advocates, policymakers, academics, health professionals and other researchers. Sponsored by Rutgers Center for Environmental Exposures and Disease. More information here. Register here. Location: College Avenue Student Center
Event Format: In-person Speaker: Tandong Yao, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Sponsored by Rutgers Department of Environmental Sciences. Location: ENR building, room 223
Speaker: Andrew Babbin, MIT. More information here. Location: Philip Alampi Room of the Marine Science Building.
Wednesday, November 8, 2023. 10:15 AM. ECE Colloquium - Jinjun Xiong, SUNY-Buffalo. Sponsored by Rutgers School of Engineering Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. More information here. Location: CoRE Building Lecture Hall, room 101
Tuesday, October 31, 2023. 11:00 AM. Carboxylation chemistry and biology: Adaptation of plants to extreme CO2 sources in Yellowstone NP. Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis, TU Delft. Sponsored by Rutgers Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. More information here. Abstract: Carboxylation reactions are those which combine CO2 with something else to make a useful natural or a synthetic chemical product. They are ...
Speaker: Jorge Marcone, Rutgers University. Abstract: National imaginaries of the so-called Andean countries show a consistent preference for partial representations of the Amazon. This is true as well of images of Amazonia globally. Literary studies, surprisingly, are responsible for this incompleteness. Indigenous art, nevertheless, flourishes in interculturalism. And the archive of 20th-century non-indigenous Amazonian fiction proves to be a site ...
Friday, November 3, 2023. 2:30 PM. Understanding Weather Hazards Impacting the Eastern US through Analysis of Cyclone Tracks, With a Focus on Storm Surge. James Booth, City University of New York. Sponsored by Rutgers Department of Environmental Sciences. More information here. Abstract: This talk will focus on hazards generated by hurricanes and extratropical cyclones along the US east coast. Overall, ...
Speaker: Tricia Thibodeau, University of New England
