Take a look at the many ways the College has grown its commitment to championing positive change as it celebrates Climate Week NYC 2024.
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The Nairobi-based, women-led organization works to empower leaders to champion the green transition.
Botany enthusiast and professor Hilary Callahan traveled 4,000 miles to find out what keeps plants flowering and fruiting in the Arctic’s harsh conditions.
The decade-long research, one of the largest urban street tree growth studies, reflects hands-on coursework that can offer real-world solutions.
As part of the “Summer Internship Series,” Gina Brown ’26 shares what it’s like to work in the noble gas lab of Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory through Barnard’s Summer Research Institute.
Professor Logan Brenner is part of an international collaboration to drill into the ocean’s past.
Barnard’s bees offer a bit o’ honey for the College’s students, faculty, and staff.
After spending five weeks on the North Island of New Zealand, the Tow Fellow calls the chance to search for a connection between people and nature “the real gift of Barnard.”
Avigail Greenberg ’25 — a political science major and environmental science minor — shines a light on renewable energy systems in Africa for a road map to a sustainable future.
The Laidlaw Scholar traces the policy effects of climate displacement ahead of the U.N. conference COP 28.
Thirty-four of the College’s faculty, staff, and students collaborated to publish an open-access textbook — connecting higher education to a sustainable future for the planet.
The political ecology senior considers the connection between climate change and corporations while working for the NFL Foundation.
Part 2 of the Summer Stories series: Students spend six weeks learning about the complex ties between the global food system and climate change.