Last week, the Penn community held the fifth annual Climate Week, five days of educational program promoting awareness of the climate crisis and current climate research, policy, and action. This year’s theme was climate solutions.
At an opening event on Monday, October 14, eleven students from across Penn schools delivered 90 second presentations on their climate research and expertise during the 1.5 Minute Student Climate Lectures. The interdisciplinary panel included four current Master of Environmental Studies (MES) students, each with a unique topic:
- Evelyn Gordi, MES - Going Green Sells: Greenwashing and Its Impact on True Environmental Progress
- Jie Ying, MES - AI and Decarbonization: Problem or Solution?
- Apsara Mitra, MES - Pale Blue Graveyard
- Deepthi Rao, MES - One Health, One Planet: Exploring Interconnectedness from Within and Beyond
Later in the week, MES students also joined the second annual Research Poster Session on College Green, sharing their current research on pressing climate issues.
Examples of other Climate Week events open to the Penn community include the Penn faculty 1.5 Minute Climate Lectures, a discussion with the EPA deputy chief Dan Utech on the current administration’s climate progress, and a fireside chat with Penn Board of Trustees chair Ramanan Raghavendran about climate leadership.
For more about the fifth annual Penn Climate Week, see the full list of events, and the Daily Pennsylvanian’s recap of the week.
