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IBES 2025: A Year in Review
IBES 2025: A Year in Review
Through bold collaboration and boundary-crossing research, IBES is driving the climate conversations and solutions our world needs most.
IBES announces 2025 Catalyst Research Awardees
IBES announces 2025 Catalyst Research Awardees
IBES awarded grants to six core and affiliate faculty members, allowing them to conduct research that crosses boundaries and benefits communities, both at Brown and around the world.
Meet Voss Fellow Piete Gatesi ’27: Balancing safety, performance, and durability in formulating the next alternative battery | Institute at Brown for Environment and Society | Brown University
Meet Voss Fellow Piete Gatesi ’27: Balancing safety, performance, and durability in formulating the next alternative battery | Institute at Brown for Environment and Society | Brown University
Gatesi, an Engineering Physics and ENVS concentrator, is researching “the most promising alternative” to standard lithium ion batteries by manipulating Lithium Lanthanum Zirconium Tantalum Oxide (LLZTO) to be more sustainable.
IBES Voss Fellows bring climate research to the community
IBES Voss Fellows bring climate research to the community
Members of the 2025-2026 Voss Undergraduate Fellowship cohort have shared their research with local audiences through the Conversations in Science series at Providence’s Hamilton House.
WATCH | Usable climate science with Adam Sobel
WATCH | Usable climate science with Adam Sobel
At a recent IBES seminar, Columbia University’s Adam Sobel called for a transparent approach to climate risk science—one that guides practical decisions in an era of extremes.
Modeling microplastics: Brown’s role in a $7M coastal initiative
Modeling microplastics: Brown’s role in a $7M coastal initiative
IBES Fellow Baylor Fox-Kemper is the leading Brown faculty member involved in SIMCoast, an NSF initiative to track how microplastics move from land to sea and explore what this means for ecosystems, climate, and communities.
How the Kartzinel Lab is rewriting conservation science
How the Kartzinel Lab is rewriting conservation science
WATCH | Rethinking solar justice with Myles Lennon
WATCH | Rethinking solar justice with Myles Lennon
During an October 18 book talk, Assistant Professor Myles Lennon challenged audiences to see solar energy as not only a climate solution, but a reflection of deeper social and economic inequities.
IBES faculty help shape Climate Week 2025
IBES faculty help shape Climate Week 2025
A decade of discovery: Voss Symposium 2025
A decade of discovery: Voss Symposium 2025
IBES Fellow helps launch Africa’s first parrot museum
IBES Fellow helps launch Africa’s first parrot museum
Sofia Ghilzai Morris ’25: Engaging fishermen in climate policy
Sofia Ghilzai Morris ’25: Engaging fishermen in climate policy
In her senior thesis, Morris explored how Maine’s climate action process can better include a group on the frontlines of climate change.
Rafael Ash ’26: Urban planning in the face of rising seas
Rafael Ash ’26: Urban planning in the face of rising seas
Urban Studies and Mathematics concentrator Rafael Ash ’26 is investigating how communities in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Warren, Rhode Island, adapt to their rapidly changing environments through democratic planning, local partnerships, and managed retreat strategies.
Summer reads from IBES scholars
Summer reads from IBES scholars
Recent titles that inform and inspire fresh ways of thinking about people and the planet.
New faculty advance climate-health research at Brown
New faculty advance climate-health research at Brown
The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society is pleased to introduce two new faculty members jointly appointed in the School of Public Health: Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, Professor of Epidemiology and Environment and Society, and Meredith Niles, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Environment and Society.
‘Subjects of the Sun’: Shining a light on obstacles, opportunities of equitable renewable energy
‘Subjects of the Sun’: Shining a light on obstacles, opportunities of equitable renewable energy
A forest reignited: Senior thesis sheds light on postfire regeneration in Rhode Island
A forest reignited: Senior thesis sheds light on postfire regeneration in Rhode Island
Recap: IBES Commencement Weekend 2025
Recap: IBES Commencement Weekend 2025
How to solve the carbon challenge? Ask Brown students
How to solve the carbon challenge? Ask Brown students
Spring 2025 at IBES: Sparking conversations, advancing solutions
Spring 2025 at IBES: Sparking conversations, advancing solutions
With new working groups, ECF fosters stronger communities through research
With new working groups, ECF fosters stronger communities through research
Yoshihiro Yajima ’25: Toads, land development, and the future of biodiversity
Yoshihiro Yajima ’25: Toads, land development, and the future of biodiversity
Amanda Lynch named to Advisory Council of The North World Approach
Amanda Lynch named to Advisory Council of The North World Approach
Sidharth Siddapureddy ’25: How a tree can reshape forests in a warming world
Sidharth Siddapureddy ’25: How a tree can reshape forests in a warming world
Brown Climate Study Named Finalist for PNAS Cozzarelli Prize
Brown Climate Study Named Finalist for PNAS Cozzarelli Prize
Climate investor Tom Steyer kicks off 2025 FSIcon
Climate investor Tom Steyer kicks off 2025 FSIcon
Marlena Brown ’25: Studying climate change through 19th-century corals
Marlena Brown ’25: Studying climate change through 19th-century corals
Research, Training, Travel: How IBES supports graduate scholars
Research, Training, Travel: How IBES supports graduate scholars
Brown’s first Climate Career Fair connects students, alumni, and employers
Brown’s first Climate Career Fair connects students, alumni, and employers
IBES' Jeanne Loewenstein Receives Excellence Award for Service
IBES' Jeanne Loewenstein Receives Excellence Award for Service
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