Sonali Diddi and Andrea Duffy have been selected for the inaugural cohort of the CSU Leadership Fellows program, which links each of the eight Fellows with a senior mentor from President Joyce McConnell's leadership team. LEARN MORE. Diddi is a co-PI on a SoGES 2020-22 Global Challenges Research Team and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Design and Merchandising. Duffy was a SoGES 2016-17 Resident Fellow and is a Special Assistant Professor in the College of Liberal Arts.

Lindsey Gray and Katherine Rocci were selected to receive a prestigious $20,000 award from the Philanthropic Education Organization (P.E.O) sisterhood, which recognizes and encourages academic excellence and achievement by women in doctoral-level programs in the United States and Canada. LEARN MORE. Gray was a SoGES 2020-21 Sustainability Leadership Fellow (SLF) and is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology. Rocci is a SoGES 2021-22 SLF and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology.

Reclamation: Recovering our Relationship with Place is an art exhibition curated by Erika Osborne and part of a larger global project, Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss. The exhibition, which is currently on view through September 19 at the CSU Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, asks what might happen if artists — instead of or alongside mining companies, engineers, and scientists — were given the opportunity to re-envision resource removal and extraction sites. LEARN MORE. Osborne was a SoGES 2014-15 Resident Fellow and is an Associate Professor of Painting in the Department of Art and Art History.

Hussam Mahmoud was selected for the 2021-23 New Voices cohort of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), a competitive process in which just 22 out of nearly 300 applicants were selected. The New Voices program engages outstanding early-career leaders to bring their ideas about critical and emerging interdisciplinary issues to the work of the National Academies. LEARN MORE. Mahmoud is a co-PI on the SoGES 2020-22 Global Challenges Research Team "Resilient Industry Supply Chains (RISC)" and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

A CSU research team including Jessica Witt is working to create an easily understood, science-backed way to visually represent hurricane danger to the general public. Witt co-authored the paper "Dynamic ensemble visualizations to support understanding for uncertain trajectories" published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, which presents findings from experiments that tested a new form of hurricane visualizations the team calls "zoomies." LEARN MORE. Witt was a SoGES 2019-20 Resident Fellow and is a Professor in the Department of Psychology.

Dimitris Stevis co-authored the article "Towards a just transition for all: Lessons from the pandemic" in the 2021 edition of the International Journal of Labour Research, which explores strategies to help workers and their organizations shape COVID-19 response policies and advocate for social justice and workers’ rights. Stevis also authored a chapter in the report US Trends that matter for Europe, published by Fundación Alternativas, about the prospects of a Green New Deal and just transitions in the US. Stevis has been on several SoGES research teams involving environmental justice, including co-founding the CSU Center for Environmental Justice, and is a Professor in the Department of Political Science.

Edward Barbier was featured in the recent news article "Trillions of dollars spent on Covid recovery in ways that harm environment" published in The Guardian. "It is understandable that some of this additional stimulus [for Covid-19] is less green than anticipated," said Barbier. "But for it to be environmentally harmful and damaging to nature is inexcusable and ultimately will make many worse off for failing to head off the looming climate crisis and other global environmental risks.” READ MORE. Barbier is a SoGES Senior Scholar and Professor in the Department of Economics.

The Salazar Center for North American Conservation joined CSU's Office of Engagement and Extension on July 1, 2021. The Center, which was developed at SoGES in 2018 in response to a charge from Ken Salazar, former U.S. Secretary of Interior, U.S. Senator, and Colorado Attorney General, and founded through generous donations from the Bohemian Foundation and Mr. Salazar, plays a leading role in promoting a large-scale and systemic view of North American conservation that recognizes connections between conservation, environmental quality, economic strength, and our quality of life. LEARN MORE.

Global Environmental Sustainability Minor (GES)

Our flagship minor, the GES program provides a deep understanding of the complexity surrounding the problems we face and the solutions that we need to implement to address climate change, biodiversity, pollution, public health, oceans, food security, and development on a global scale. LEARN MORE.

Jointly offered by the Colorado Water Center and SoGES, this minor focuses on water issues from social, political, economic, and ecological perspectives. Students gain knowledge of the complexities of water use and management. LEARN MORE.

This minor focuses on social, philosophical, and education aspects of peace and reconciliation and how these can address issues of sustainability. LEARN MORE.

Jointly offered by the CSU Energy Institute and SoGES, this minor focuses on the many dimensions of sustainable energy and breaking down traditional barriers that separate the science and engineering of energy from the social, economic, and political aspects of energy. LEARN MORE.

Online minor enrollment is available. Visit the SoGES education and training webpage to learn more, download the minor course check sheets, and set up an advising appointment.

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