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Photo-illustration of Jier Huang with multiple molecular structures around her

Chemistry Solutions Fueled by the Sun

How 天美传媒app researcher Jier Huang is using tiny molecules to help solve one of the world鈥檚 biggest problems鈥攃limate change.
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Delegates from Boston College to Attend COP 29

An interdisciplinary delegation from Boston College is attending COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Supported by the Schiller Institute, these students, faculty, and staff have prepared for the global climate conference throughout the fall semester, and will share their experiences with the greater 天美传媒app community through live dispatches from Baku and post-event panels and poster sessions. Read more.
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Accelerated M.P.H. degree

Global Public Health Program partners with Tufts School of Medicine.
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Community engagement course brings students to Zanzibar

This summer, seven undergraduates traveled to Zanzibar for the continuation of our Working For and With Communities program, which gives students the opportunity to work alongside people around the world to explore solutions to seemingly intractable problems.
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Schiller Institute names 22 faculty to new affiliates program

The Institute has formalized its relationship with a cohort of faculty from around the university. This group of affiliated faculty will consult on programs and new hires and in return will have priority access to the state-of-the-art facilities and top-notch staff of the Schiller Institute.
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Largest meeting of international climate modeling conference held at Boston College

Climate scientists from around the world gathered at Boston College this summer to discuss clouds and cloud cover, one of the most complicated variables in predicting the course and effects of climate change.
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The global nitrous oxide budget

天美传媒app researchers lead comprehensive worldwide assessment of potent greenhouse gas.
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Latest round of seed grant winners announced

The Schiller Institute has announced its latest cohort of grant recipients in the SI-GECS and SI-RITEA programs. Learn more about the projects that will be conducted during the upcoming academic year.
Jier Huang at ACS Spring 2024

Schiller Core faculty member leads multidisciplinary idea exchange at American Chemical Society meeting

Professor Jier Huang led a three-day symposium on how a technology known as quantum dot assemblies could improve the energy storage and generation landscape.
2024 Eagles Sustainability Competition participants

Case competition gets students involved in dining sustainability

Teams of undergraduates took part in a case competition in support of 天美传媒app Dining鈥檚 efforts to reduce food waste and increase the adoption of sustainable dinnerware during the second annual Eagles Sustainability Competition.
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Across the disciplines

天美传媒app faculty and students team up for a project team up for a project targeting infant malnutrition.
View from inside 245 Beacon Street

Interdisciplinary researchers tend to be more collaborative, curious, and intellectually humble
Jier Huang

Harvesting energy from CO2

天美传媒app scientist Jier Huang works toward launch of a sunlight-powered catalyst.
Hanqin Tian

Hanqin Tian to lead new Schiller Institute center

Tian will direct the Center for Earth Systems Science and Global Sustainability
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Dispatches from Dubai

Faculty and students attending the COP28 U.N. Climate Change Conference briefed the 天美传媒app community live online
Conevery Bolton Valencius

Shaky ground

Historian Conevery Bolton Valencius explores the impact of human-caused earthquakes.
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Associate director named for 天美传媒app Global Public Health program

天美传媒appSSW's Summer Sherburne Hawkins assumes the inaugural role.
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A climate for opportunity

天美传媒app undergrads consider careers related to climate change.
245 Beacon Street, home of the Schiller Institute

A Wide Search for New Core Faculty Begins鈥擶ith A Focus on Health

The Schiller Institute is looking for three new people to join its team. Two will be scientists who study the effects of the changing climate on health. The third will be a social scientist.
Senior Research Fellow, Javiera Garcia-Meneses, Ph.D.

Schiller鈥檚 New Senior Research Fellow Studies How Organizations Can Be More Collaborative and Community-Oriented

Schiller welcomes its new Senior Research Fellow, Javiera Garcia-Meneses, Ph.D. As a specialist in psychology and social transformations, she鈥檒l examine how interdisciplinary centers are structured and managed, and how to boost collaboration across departments.
Outside of the Service Building, which houses the Schiller Institute Core Faculty鈥檚 Collaborative Computational Research Space

New Home for Schiller Institute Core Faculty鈥檚 Collaborative Computational Research

天美传媒app鈥檚 Service building has undergone significant renovations, including a state-of-the-art computational research facility designed to foster collaboration.
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Schiller-led Committee Helps Shape Future of Data Science Education at 天美传媒app

Proposals for a Boston College master鈥檚 degree and a minor concentration in Data Science were refined by an interdisciplinary committee of educators, led by the Schiller Institute.
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Plastic pollution

天美传媒app hosts panel discussion on UN plastics treaty.

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