Events

Past Events

ACSRI Faculty Listening Session

Date/Time: Thursday, April 1, 2021, 6:30 pm
Zoom meeting (1 hour)

Hosted by ACSRI faculty representatives:

J. Robb Dixon, Associate Professor, Operations & Technology Management, Questrom School of Business; Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Sustainable Energy; Faculty Representative

Cataldo Leone, Dean ad interim and Professor (Molecular & Cell Biology; Periodontology), Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine; Past Chair, Faculty Council

Eileen O’Keefe, Clinical Professor, Health Sciences, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College; Chair, Faculty Council

ACSRI Student Listening Session

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 6 pm
Zoom meeting (1 hour)

Hosted by ACSRI student representatives
Breanne MacFarland, STH/SSW’22
Oliver Pour, CGS’20, COM’22
Jessica Zheng, CAS’22

Urban Heat: Rising Temperatures and Population Vulnerability in Cities

Date/Time: Thursday, March 4, 2021, at 4 pm EST
Zoom Webinar (1 hour)

Panel of Speakers:

  • Katharine Lusk, Co-Director and Founding Executive Director, Initiative on Cities
  • Lucy Hutyra, Associate Director, BU URBAN Program, and Associate Professor, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Patricia Fabian, Associate Professor, Environmental Health, School of Public Health

The forum is now available for viewing on BUniverse. All speakers’ presentations from the forum are also available to review:

Climate Change: The Global Dimension

Date/Time: Monday, March 1, 2021, at 4 pm EST
Zoom Webinar (1 hour)

Speaker:

  • Adil Najam, Dean, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, and Professor, International Relations and Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences

Moderator:

  • Janine Ferretti, Vice President for the Office of Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, World Bank Group; former Professor of the Practice, Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

The forum is now available for viewing on BUniverse.

Climate Change and the Prospects for the Rapid Decarbonization of Energy Supplies

Date/Time: Thursday, February 25, 2021, at 4 pm EST
Zoom Webinar (90 minutes)

Panel of Speakers:

  • Peter Fox-Penner, Director, Institute for Sustainable Energy, and Professor of the Practice, Questrom School of Business
  • Cutler Cleveland, Associate Director, Institute for Sustainable Energy, and Professor, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences

The forum is now available for viewing on BUniverse. Both speakers’ presentations from the forum are also available to review:

Fossil Fuel Divestment and Sustainability Investment Forum

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 23, 2016, at 7 p.m.
Location: George Sherman Union, Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, 2nd Floor, Boston

Panel of Speakers:

  • Timothy Smith, Walden Asset Management, Senior Vice President and Director of Environmental, Social, and Governance Shareowner Engagement
  • Nathan Phillips, Boston University College of Arts & Sciences, Professor of Earth & Environment
  • Noelle Laing, Cambridge Associates, Managing Director of the Mission-Related Investing Group

Moderator:
R.D. Sahl, Boston University College of Communication, Associate Professor of the Practice and Broadcast Journalist

The forum is now available for viewing on BUniverse.

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Panel of Speakers:

  • Dean Adil Najam, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, and Professor of International Relations and Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences
  • Professor Anthony Janetos, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences; Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
  • Professor Madhu Dutta-Koehler, Associate Professor of the Practice and Program Coordinator, City Planning & Urban Affairs, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Metropolitan College

Date/Time: Tuesday, December 1, 2015, at 7 p.m.
Location: George Sherman Union, Conference Auditorium, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, 2nd Floor, Boston

The panel’s discussion is now available for viewing on BUniverse.

Assessing Climate Change and Its Impacts

Speaker: Professor Anthony Janetos, BU College of Arts & Sciences, Earth & Environment; Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 28, 2015, at 7 p.m.
Location: Trustee Center Ballroom, One Silber Way, 9th Floor, Boston

Professor Janetos’s lecture is now available for viewing on BUniverse.

Home(town) Security: A Talk About Urban Revitalization and Sustainability

Speaker: Majora Carter, Urban Revitalization Strategist
Date/Time: Thursday, April 23, 2015, at 4 p.m.
Location: George Sherman Union, Small Ballroom, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, 2nd Floor

Majora Carter’s lecture is now available for viewing on BUniverse.

The Economic and Societal Impact of Climate Change

Speaker: Dr. John M. Reilly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Co-Director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management
Date/Time: Thursday, April 2, 2015, at 4 p.m.
Location: Trustee Center Ballroom, One Silber Way, 9th Floor, Boston

Dr. Reilly’s lecture is now available for viewing on BUniverse.