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Why We Compete: Global Health Case Competition Information Session
February 12, 2024 - 3:30pm
Start preparing for the 7th annual IPHPRP Global Health Case Competition!...
The Inflation Reduction Act in Iowa: Implementing the Clean Energy and Climate Provisions
February 16, 2024 - 10:00am
Join the Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative, Rewiring America, the UI Labor Center, and the Iowa Environmental Council for a series of panels discussing the Inflation Reduction Act in Iowa. Sessions will focus on national trends in the landmark climate legislation, state and local opportunities currently underway, and labor and prevailing wages in Iowa....
Sharing Energy for Climate Communications: Improv and Embodied Activities
February 16, 2024 - 10:00am
Benjamin Stasny is joining us from Colorado University at Boulder, where he is a PhD candidate studying the intersection of queer futurity, climate communication, and improvisational pedagogy. While in grad school, Ben has developed workshops that use theatrical techniques for sharing energy and sustaining hope in the face of climate change. He has led these workshops in Boulder, Chicago, London, and now Iowa City. Please use the Google form linked above to register for this event (limit 30...
COP28 – An Inside View of the annual UN Climate Change Conference A conversation with Dubuque’s Gina Bell, co-hosted by IISC
February 20, 2024 - 5:00pm
COP28 – An Inside View of the annual UN Climate Change Conference ...
EFC Lecture—Iowa Faces the 1960s—Charles Connerly, PhD
February 22, 2024 - 4:00pm
As Iowa entered the 1960s, it faced issues that reflected the transition from an agricultural, rural state to one that had become majority urban with consequent tensions between its urban and rural communities—tensions that continue to this day. At the same time, Iowa’s food-based economy seemed increasingly out of sync with a national economy driven proportionately less by the consumption of food and more by growing consumer demand for homes, cars, televisions, hi-fis, and clothes—items that...
Rob Verchick - 'The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience'
February 23, 2024 - 12:45pm
On Friday, Feb. 23, 2024 join the Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative in welcoming to campus author Rob Verchick - a leading climate law scholar who designed and implemented climate-resilience policies in the Obama administration. He holds the Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University New Orleans, is the Frances B. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, is a senior fellow in disaster resilience at Tulane University, and...
Application Deadline: Design Workshop for Environmental Studies Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
February 27, 2024 - 5:00pm
The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies welcomes campus artists, humanities scholars, and researchers in the sciences and social sciences to imagine the many ways that our campus and connected spaces might serve as a “living laboratory” for environmental research....
Virtual All Majors Career Fair
February 29, 2024 - 1:00pm
This fair will focus on recruiting students pursuing any and all majors! All students are invited to attend! There will be a variety of industries of employers represented. Visit: https://careers.uiowa.edu/virtual-career-fair for more details.
Growing Kids By Growing Plants: Horticultural Therapy and the Benefits of Environmental Learning on Youth Mental Health
February 29, 2024 - 5:00pm
Please register here. TLC Credit: IS, SEBMH...