BU Earth & Environment

We seek to understand our changing Earth and its relationships with humankind and to develop strategies for a sustainable future.

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Undergraduate

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Research

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Diversity & Inclusion

The Department of Earth & Environment will remain committed to fostering diverse, inclusive, and equitable living, learning, and working environments that are supportive and free from violence, harassment, disruption, and intimidation.

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Upcoming Events

Can China’s New Venture Capitalists Solve the Local Government Debt Problem?

  • Feb 23
  • 5:00 PM
  • Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road
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Mar 05

A Political Economy of Inequality and Pandemics

  • 4:00 PM
  • Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, 67 Bay State Road OR via Zoom
Apr 02

Health, Knowledge, Politics: Understanding the Triad

  • 9:00 AM
  • Via Zoom
Apr 16

Care without Pathology: How Trans-Health Activists Are Changing Medicine

  • 4:00 PM
  • Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, 67 Bay State Road OR via Zoom
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Department News

Welcoming Assistant Professor Sasha Kramer to BU Earth & Environment!

September 16, 2025

An interview with our new Director of Graduate Studies (DGS): Associate Professor Jeffrey Geddes!

September 2, 2025

Dr. Dan Li and Dr. Libby Barnes Receive American Meteorological Society Recognitions

August 27, 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Kai-Ting Hu on a successful PhD dissertation Defense!

August 11, 2025

IGS Graduate Student Summer Fellows Present Research

August 1, 2025

Successful PhD Defense — Congrats Dr. Arden Radford

July 30, 2025
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