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Tufts Alums Pursue Environmental Projects Through Fellowship

Alumna Mara Gittleman studied changes in Ethiopian urban agriculture last January.

"As employment options continue to shrink for recent college graduates, two Tufts alums are among nine recent graduates this year taking advantage of the Compton Mentor Fellowship program.

"The fellowship offers a yearlong, paid research opportunity that offers youths fresh out of college the chance to pursue a project that focuses on environmental sustainability, conflict resolution and other human security issues..."  Read more>>

Upcoming Events

6th Annual Everett-Moomaw Debate on Energy and Climate
Thursday, November 19, 6-7:30pm
Cabot, ASEAN Auditorium

GDAE Brown Bag Lunch Series:
"The Global Poverty Implications of an Earth Atmospheric Trust"
Speaker: Brian Roach
Tuesday, December 1, 12-1pm
GDAE Conference Rm, 3rd Floor
44 Teele Ave

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TEA Newsletter

Tufts Environmental Alumni e-Newsletter

Second Edition available here

Farmers Market

Featured in this edition: 

Featured Profile: Greg Watson

New website from a TIE partner: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

Faculty Spotlight: Tim Griffin

Featured Graduate Research Fellow: Olivia Varley-Winter

Greening the Campus: The Office of Sustainability

Tufts Institute of the Environment-

Welcome!

The Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE) is an interdisciplinary, university-wide education and research institute devoted to advancing and disseminating knowledge about the many ways that human interactions affect the environment. TIE brings together existing environmental efforts at Tufts and helps to catalyze new research, outreach, service, and teaching initiatives.

Tufts has a longstanding commitment to environmental sustainability and a focus on educating future leaders in the field. Tufts was the birthplace of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future and lead signatory of the 1990 Talloires Declaration, which articulated the responsibility of universities to address environmental issues.

TIE has four directorates, each with a specific area of focus:

Environmental Education, directed by Prof. Gretchen Kaufman of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

Energy and Climate, directed by Prof. William Moomaw of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Health and the Environment, directed by Prof. Elena Naumova of the School of Medicine

Water, directed by Prof. Richard Vogel of the School of Engineering

TIE is also closely affiliated with the Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) graduate certificate program, directed by Prof. Richard Vogel of the School of Engineering, Robert (Rusty) Russell of the School of Arts and Sciences and Timothy Griffin of the School of Nutrition Science and Policy.


Tufts Institute for the Environment

What Are We Missing?

Faculty views on climate change

Ann Rappaport

 "One of the things that we need to think about well ahead of time is the vulnerability of our infrastructure to sea-level rise."

Ann Rappaport
Lecturer, Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

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