Estelle Sun
Estelle Sun, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an associate professor at Questrom School of Business. Her recent work examines the consequences of and firms’ responses to greenhouse gas emissions, the effects of extreme weather events on stock prices, disclosures, financial reporting, and auditing, the predictive power of climate […]
Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz
Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an assistant professor and program director, city planning and urban affairs, at Metropolitan College. Her research uses urban conflicts to examine how planning and policy shape cities and regions. Planning initiatives and policies redistribute land, resources, and power, often sparking tensions […]
Pamela Templer
Pamela Templer, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is chair and professor in the Department of Biology and director of the PhD Program in Biogeoscience at Boston University. She is broadly interested in ecosystem ecology and the influence that plant-microbial interactions have on nutrient cycling and carbon exchange. Dr. Templer is […]
Remi Trudel
Remi Trudel, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. Trudel’s research focuses on consumer well-being with translational implications for business. Specifically, he explores three consumer behaviors that he believes are destructive and unsustainable to […]
Irena Vodenska
Irena Vodenska, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor of Finance and Director of Finance Programs at Boston University’s Metropolitan College. She is also a chair of the Administrative Sciences Department at Metropolitan College, Boston University. Her research focuses on network theory and complexity science in macroeconomics. She […]
Monica Wang
Dr. Monica Wang, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Executive Editor of Public Health Post. She is an award-winning public health leader, researcher, educator, and author of The […]
Gregory Wellenius
Gregory Wellenius, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), serves as the Beverly A. Brown Professor for the Improvement of Urban Health, a Professor in the Department of Environmental Health, and Director of the BUSPH Center for Climate and Health. He is an environmental epidemiologist committed to reducing the health threats […]
Chris Wells
Chris Wells, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Professor in the College of Communication and a founding member of the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University. He is also project lead for the Focused Research Program on data and misinformation jointly sponsored by IGS. Wells […]
Joerg Werner
Joerg Werner, core faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), received his PhD from Cornell University with Prof. Uli Wiesner. His research focused on functional and precise three-dimensional (3D) nanomaterials from block copolymer self-assembly for energy storage applications, including the demonstration of the first functional nano-interdigitated battery. In his postdoc at Harvard […]
Amelia Wesselink
Dr. Amelia Wesselink, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Research Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH). Her research focuses on how environmental exposures influence reproductive and gynecologic health, with a specific focus on factors related to neighborhoods and climate change. She […]