First YEAH! Networking Conference on the SDG’s a huge success
Dec. 15, 2020—Vanderbilt University, as part of the NSF funded Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education (“YEAH”) network, participated in the development and launch of the first international YEAH Conference. The Conference, called “SDGS for the SDGs: Students Doing Goal-Oriented Science for the Sustainable Development Goals, was an international, on-line event where students from across the globe participated in all aspects of a...
Vanderbilt awarded NSF climate education networking grant
Nov. 4, 2020—With this award from the National Science Foundation, Vanderbilt joins the Youth Environment Alliance in Higher Education (YEAH), a multi-university network aimed at training undergraduate life science students to be future leaders at the science-policy interface. Students and Professors from nearly a dozen universities and colleges across the country and the world are coming together...
Vanderbilt at the United Nations!
Jan. 21, 2020—Vanderbilt students participated in the 25th Conference of the Parties (“COP25”)to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Madrid, Spain in December 2019. During this life-changing trip in which students interacted daily with people from nearly 197 nations including many indigenous populations (all under one roof!), Vanderbilt students: met with members of...
VCCI teaching new, undergraduate interdisciplinary climate change course
Aug. 12, 2019—Dr. Leah Dundon will be teaching a new undergraduate Honors Seminar this Fall 2019 semester titled “Climate Change and the Global Response: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective.” The class will be a truly interdisciplinary look at the challenges, opportunities, and potential solutions to climate change. A few students will have the opportunity to attend the Conference of...
VCCI engage local 8th graders in mock international climate change negotiations
Mar. 8, 2019—February 22, 2019 VCCI researchers lead mock international climate change negotiations at annual STEM day with students from Harpeth Hall and Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville. Students acted as delegates representing specific countries or United Nations negotiating blocs, and worked to negotiate specific agreements regarding financing to developing countries, green house emissions, deforestation, or afforestation. ...
VCCI attends the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Katowice
Mar. 6, 2019—The 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Katowice, Poland, in December, 2018. COP24 saw two weeks filled with sometimes tense negotiations aimed at completing the “Paris Rulebook,” a set of rules by which countries will operate as they implement and report on...
Tour of Alstom manufacturing – world’s first hydrogen train
Mar. 1, 2019—December 2018 — VCCI Director Dr. Leah Dundon tours Alstom train manufacturing in Katowice, Poland during COP24. Alstom has developed the world’s first hydrogen train, now in passenger service in Germany.