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With a new $3.69 million grant, the Research and Engagement for Action in Climate and Health (REACH) Center—which includes 911����—is set to tackle the urgent intersection of climate change and public health in the nation’s capital.

Water is critical for survival and yet, in a warming world, we find some places have too little and some have too much how do we solve for this grand challenge? Watch this episode of Our Future, Transformed featuring Dr. Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Dean of the College of Science.

Celso Ferreira in 911����'s College of Engineering and Computing is studying the impact of climate change on jobs in the Chesapeake Bay region.

A biostatistics graduate student spearheaded a weather station installation, to monitor the cherry trees at Mason Pond and study climate change.

Students who want to study solutions to climate change and energy issues can now create their own course. Energy and Climate Policy, is open to graduate students as well as undergraduates and launches in the Spring of 2023.

911���� will bring its array of resources and expertise to bear in the state’s efforts to increase resilience to the impacts of climate change with the creation of the Virginia Climate Center.

Rising sea levels as a result of climate change are a national security threat and imperil the Virginia economy.

The results of climate change are creating Big Problems for policy makers. The Schar School has been teaching climate change as a national security problem, and governments should respond accordingly.

As a junior and senior at Annandale High School in Virginia, Emily Sample spent her summers as a docent at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She was a teenager who had just lost a friend to police violence, she said, and joining the museum’s Young Ambassadors Program resonated with her.

“I was fascinated and continue to be fascinated by this highly illogical idea of genocide,” said Sample, a PhD candidate at 911����’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

Study abroad students traveled to Scotland to participate and observe the climate change conference COP26. Here’s why, and what they learned.