Graduate School of Arts & Sciences' Master's Open House
You are invited to the Graduate School of Arts and Science's Master's Open House.
Learn about our many disciplinary and interdisciplinary master's programs.
Meet faculty and department representatives.
Speak with counselors about the admissions process.
Explore options for financing your education.
Monday, November 2, 2009 6:30 PM until 8:00 PM Eisner Lubin Auditorium Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor New York, NY 10012
Interested in majoring or minoring
in Environmental Studies? The Environmental Studies Program will hold
an information session for current and potential Environmental Studies
majors and minors on Thursday, October 15, 2009 starting at 5:00PM.
Please join us to meet ES faculty and administration, learn about
Environmental Studies at NYU, meet current students in the Program, and
ask us any questions you might have. Pizza and refreshments will be
served.
The
ES Program is an integrated, problem-oriented course
of study across various disciplines and schools. We offer opportunities
to develop interests in a number of areas, including environmental
science, environmental values, policy and law, earth system science,
public health, urban environmental problems, climate change, energy
systems, environmental monitoring, environmental justice, and our
complex relations with both domesticated and wild nature.
New York City will host Walk21, the annual international walking
conference, in October 2009. The conference will take place at New York
University in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, from Tuesday, October 6 to
Friday October 9, 2009 and will be hosted by the New York City
Department of Transportation.
New York City will host Walk21, the 10th International Conference on
Walking and Liveable Communities, in October 2009. The conference will
take place at New York University from Wednesday, October 7 to Friday,
October 9, and is sponsored by the New York City Department of
Transportation.
The goal of the Walk21 conference series is to
support and inspire professionals to evolve the best policies and
implement the best initiatives for creating and promoting environments
where people choose to walk as an indicator of livable communities. The
Walk21 conference attracts delegates from around the world to hear from
leading professionals about programs, policies and projects that really
work and explore those themes in action through walking tours and
visits arranged in the host city.
This year's conference themes
are: (1) Walkable communities are sustainable communities; (2) Paved
with gold: investing in the public realm for a successful city; (3)
There is more to walking than walking: design strategies for urban
quality; and (4) Fit cities: community design for active living.
The registration rate will go up after September 10th, so sign up now!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 6:00-7:30 pm Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South, 10th Floor Rosenthal Pavillion New York, NY 10012 RSVP: http://www.nyu.edu/rsvp/event.php?e_id=1771
We all know nature doesn’t do bailouts. Yet this week, on September 25,
humanity will have demanded all the ecological services that nature can
provide this year – from filtering CO2 to producing raw materials for
food. From now until December 31, we are borrowing from the future.
Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint, will give a
lecture on the numbers behind this deficit, and how action at
Copenhagen can reverse this global trend. The Ecological Footprint is a
resource accounting tool that measures how much nature we use compared
to how much we have -- and the current ledgers are sobering.
Mathis is co-creator of the Ecological Footprint and has worked on
sustainability issues for organizations in Europe, Latin America, North
America, Asia and Australia, and has lectured for community groups,
governments and their agencies, NGOs, and academic audiences at more
than 100 universities around the world. Mathis previously served as the
director of the Sustainability Program at Redefining Progress in
Oakland, California, and directed the Centre for Sustainability Studies
/ Centro de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad in Mexico, which he still
advises. He is also an adjunct faculty at SAGE at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
Mathis has authored or contributed to over 50
peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles and reports and various books
on sustainability that focus on the question of embracing limits and
developing metrics for sustainability, including Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth; Sharing Nature’s Interest; and WWF International’s Living Planet Report.
After earning a degree in mechanical engineering from the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, he completed his Ph.D. in community and
regional planning at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver,
Canada. There, as his doctoral dissertation with Professor William
Rees, he created the Ecological Footprint concept. Mathis’ awards
include an honorary doctorate from the University of Berne in 2007, a
2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a 2006 WWF Award for
Conservation Merit and the 2005 Herman Daly Award of the U.S. Society
for Ecological Economics.
The Educating for Sustainability Series is sponsored by the NYU Environmental Studies Program and the Sustainability Task Force.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
The NYU Bioethics and Environmental Studies Programs invites you to attend a lecture by
Martin Bunzl Rutgers University
US Versus Them: Carbon Output in the Developing World.
Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:00-7:00 pm
Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South, Room 910 (Washington Square South and LaGuardia Place)
RSVP REQUIRED: Please contact Amanda Anjum at asa4@nyu.edu or call 212-992-7999.
Professor Bunzl is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers
University and directs the Initiative on Climate and Social Policy, a
joint Program of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, the School of Arts
and Sciences, and the Environmental and Biological Sciences.
Professor
Bunzl will argue that it may be rational for the Developing World to
favor a higher carbon concentration in the atmosphere than the
Developed World.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
NYU's
Environmental Studies Program, Master's Program in Global Public
Health, and the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human
Development presents:
Weather & Death in India: Mechanisms and Implications for Climate Change
featuring Dr. Michael Greenstone
May 5, 2009 4:15pm - 5:30pm NYU Kimmel Center, Room 914 (9th Floor) 60 Washington Square South Free and Open to the Public RSVP online: www.nyu.edu/mph/events
Is
climate change truly a matter of life and death? Join us as acclaimed
economist Dr. Michael Greenstone discusses revelatory new research on
the impact of variations in weather on well-being in India. The
results indicate that high temperatures dramatically increase mortality
rates; for example, 1 additional day with a mean temperature above 32°
C, relative to a day in the 22° - 24° C range, increases the annual
mortality rate by 0.9% in rural areas. This effect appears to be
related to substantial reductions in the income of agricultural
laborers due to these same hot days. Finally, the estimated
temperature-mortality relationship and state of the art climate change
projections reveal a substantial increase in mortality due to climate
change, which greatly exceeds the expected impact in the US and other
developed countries.
Michael Greenstone is the 3M Professor of
Environmental Economics in the Department of Economics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also is a Research Associate
at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Nonresident
Senior Fellow at Brookings. His research is focused on estimating the
costs and benefits of environmental quality. He has worked extensively
on the Clean Air Act and examined its impacts on air quality,
manufacturing activity, housing prices, and infant mortality to assess
its costs and benefits. He is currently engaged in a large scale
project to estimate the economic costs of climate change. Other current
projects include examinations of: the benefits of the Superfund
program; the economic and health impacts of indoor air pollution in
Orissa, India; individual's revealed value of a statistical life; the
impact of air pollution on infant mortality in developing countries;
and the costs of biodiversity.
Greenstone is also interested in
the consequences of government regulation, more generally. He is
conducting or has conducted research on: the effects of federal
antidiscrimination laws on black infant mortality rates; the impacts of
mandated disclosure laws on equity markets; and the welfare
consequences of state and local subsidies given to businesses that
locate within their jurisdictions. He is a member of the Environmental
Economics Advisory Committee of EPA's Science Advisory Board and his
research has been funded by the NSF, NIH, and EPA. In 2004, Professor
Greenstone received the 12th Annual Kenneth J. Arrow Award for Best
Paper in the Field of Health Economics. He is currently an editor of
The Review of Economics and Statistics.
Presented as part of the
ongoing series Statistics in Society, presented by the The Center for
the Promotion of Research Involving Innovative Statistical Methodology
(PRIISM).
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The NYU Environmental Studies Program Presents
The Senior Capstone Presentation: The Greening of NYU
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 6:20 p.m. Silver Center 100 Washington Square East, Room 411
Food and beverages will be served so please RSVP no later than Monday, April 27, 2009 to Amanda Anjum at amandaanjum@nyu.edu.
Students
will present three semester-long, applied research projects concerning
the greening of New York University. The Capstone is a problem-based,
project oriented, collaborative course for senior Environmental Studies
majors. The presentation will detail their research findings, and
propose next steps for improving the greening of Universities. The
topics are: environmental assessment; buildings and climate change; and
environmental education.
Senior Research Fellow, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University
Beating Long Odds: A New Global Deal on Climate Change
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:00-7:30 PM Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center Barasch Theater, First Floor
50 West Fourth Street New York, NY 10012
Climate
policy at the international level is moving towards agreeing an
emissions pathway, and distributing responsibilities between countries.
A feasible framework can be constructed in which each country takes on
its own responsibilities and targets, based on a shared understanding
of the risks and the need for action and collaboration on climate
change. The global deal should contain six key features: (i) a pathway
to achieve the world target of 50% reductions by 2050, where rich
countries contribute at least 75% reductions; (ii) global
emissions trading to reduce costs; (iii) reform of the clean
development mechanism to scale-up emission reductions on a sectoral or
benchmark level; (iv) scaling up of research and development funding
for low-carbon energy; (v) an agreement on deforestation; and (vi)
adaptation finance.
Dr. Hepburn is an environmental economist
specializing in climate policy and long-term decision-making. He holds
teaching and research fellowships at Oxford, is a visiting fellow at
the London School of Economics and Political Science, and was a
contributor to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.
The Educating for Sustainability series is sponsored by NYU's Environmental Studies Program and the Sustainability Task Force.
Monday, April 13, 2009
The New York University Bioethics and the Environmental Studies Programs invites you to attend a lecture by:
Monday, April 13, 2009 6:30 PM 19 University Place, Room 102 (Corner of East 8th Street & University Place) New York, NY 10003
In
the waning days of the Pinochet dictatorship, water rights in Chile
were privatized, and now a Spanish utility company is seeking to build
five high dams that would irretrievably damage one of the wildest and
most beautiful places on earth. Building the dams would also mean
building a thousand-mile power-line corridor northward toward the
Chilean capital, Santiago — the longest clear-cut on the planet and a
scar across some of Chile’s most alluring landscape. Most of the
electricity generated by the project would go not to residential use
but to mining and industry.
Dr. Hernan Sandoval is President
of the Corporacion Chile Ambiente, and one of the leaders in the fight
for a dam-free Patagonia. Dr. Sandoval began his career as a surgeon at
the University of Chile, and while in exile during the Pinochet
dictatorship worked for the World Health Organization in Africa and
Latin America. After returning to Chile he led the effort to reform the
national health system, and later served as Ambassador to France.
Interested in majoring or minoring
in Environmental Studies? The Environmental Studies Program will hold
an information session for current and potential Environmental Studies
majors and minors on Wednesday, April 8, 2009 starting at 5:00PM.
Please join us to meet ES faculty and administration, learn about
Environmental Studies at NYU, meet current students in the Program, and
ask us any questions you might have. Pizza and refreshments will be
served.
The
ES Program is an integrated, problem-oriented course
of study across various disciplines and schools. We offer opportunities
to develop interests in a number of areas, including environmental
science, environmental values, policy and law, earth system science,
public health, urban environmental problems, climate change, energy
systems, environmental monitoring, environmental justice, and our
complex relations with both domesticated and wild nature. RSVP by
contacting Amanda Anjum at amandaanjum@nyu.edu no later than Tuesday,
April 7, 2009 by 5:00 PM.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Join the Wallerstein Collaborative this spring to learn about ecology in New York City!
NYC Wings of Migration Presenter: Dr. Susan Elbin, New York City Audubon 4:00-6:00 PM NYU Kimmel Center 60 Washington Square South
Why
do birds leave their nesting grounds to travel many thousands of miles?
Why do they return? And how do they get to where they are going? Dr.
Elbin explores the mystery of migration through the perspective of New
York City birds.
This
event is free but requires an RSVP as space is limited. Please RSVP to
kathleen.oliver@nyu.edu. Be sure to include your name, phone number,
affiliation, and the name of the event you will be attending.
"Conservation and International Law in the 21st Century: Lessons Learnt, Challenges Ahead."
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
12:20-1:20 PM
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 202
Co-Sponsored by the Environmental Law Society and the Environmental Studies Program
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
SAVING LIVES –CHANGING HORIZONS IN HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE 5 Washington Place, Room 101 Reception begins at 6:30 PM Lecture 7:30-9:00 PM
Join Dr. Miriam Aschkenasy,
Oxfam America’s Public Health Specialist, as she discusses innovations
in public health, disaster risk reduction, and insights gained over the
past several years working in Africa and Asia. Hear a first-hand
account about the issues, progress, and the challenges that lie ahead
for humanitarian response.
How does a drought or a disease outbreak with no name in a remote and
dusty region of Africa find its way onto the radar screen of an
international aid group a third of the way around the world? DEWS – an
innovative humanitarian aid pilot project in southern Ethiopia – is
tracking changes in local conditions that could signal the onset of a
humanitarian disaster – and get people help before problems spiral out
of control.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2008 7:00 - 9:00 PM 5 WASHINGTON PLACE, ROOM 101
A light supper will be servedso please RSVP by October 14 to Maryna Lansky marynalansky@hotmail.com or (212) 962-0098.
This event is co-sponsored by the New York Committee for Oxfam America and the NYU Environmental Studies Program.
Interested in majoring or minoring
in Environmental Studies? The Environmental Studies Program will hold
an information session for current and potential Environmental Studies
majors and minors on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 starting at 5:00PM.
Please join us to meet ES faculty and administration, learn about
Environmental Studies at NYU, meet current students in the Program, and
ask us any questions you might have. Pizza and refreshments will be
served.
The ES Program is an integrated, problem-oriented course
of study across various disciplines and schools. We offer opportunities
to develop interests in a number of areas, including environmental
science, environmental values, policy and law, earth system science,
public health, urban environmental problems, climate change, energy
systems, environmental monitoring, environmental justice, and our
complex relations with both domesticated and wild nature. Please
contact environmental.studies@nyu.edu with any questions. We look
forward to seeing you.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Considering Environmental Law?
Please join Katrina Wyman, Professor of Law, for a discussion of environmental law and law school.
October 1, 2008
285 Mercer Street, 9th Floor
6:00-7:30 PM
Refreshments will be served.
For more information, please contact Amanda Anjum at amanda anjum at nyu dot edu or at 212-992-7999.
Stephen Pacala Petrie Professor of Biology, Princeton University Director, Princeton Environmental Institute
"Equitable Solutions of the Carbon and Climate Problem."
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 6:00-7:30 PM Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center 50 West Fourth Street (at the corner of Washington Square East) Barash Theater, 1st Floor
Interested
in majoring or minoring in Environmental Studies? The Environmental
Studies Program will hold an information session for current and
potential Environmental Studies majors and minors on Tuesday, April 1,
2008 starting at 5:30PM. Please join us to meet ES faculty and
administration, learn about Environmental Studies at NYU, meet current
students in the Program, and ask us any questions you might have. Pizza
and refreshments will be served.
The ES Program is an
integrated, problem-oriented course of study across various disciplines
and schools. We offer opportunities to develop interests in a number of
areas, including environmental science, environmental values, policy
and law, earth system science, public health, urban environmental
problems, climate change, energy systems, environmental monitoring,
environmental justice, and our complex relations with both domesticated
and wild nature. Please contact environmental.studies@nyu.edu with any
questions. We look forward to seeing you.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Robert Gottlieb
"Reinventing Los Angeles:Nature and Community in the Global City."
Monday, March 10, 2008
6:00-7:30 PM
Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center100 Washington Square East, 1st Floor
(Please use the 32 Waverly Place entrance)
To learn more about Robert Gottlieb and his upcoming lecture, please download the flyer here.
Environmental Talks Sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs/Outdoor Leadership Track.
Monday, February 11, 2008 "Environmental Politics"- Dale Jamieson
Monday, February 25, 2008 "The Rising Levels of CO²"- Tyler Volk
Monday, March 3, 2008 "Sustainability"- Anne Rademacher
All lectures will be from 6:00-7:00PM in the Office of Student Activities Conference Room, Kimmel 704J. If
you are not registered for the Outdoor Leadership program but you are
an Environmental Studies student that would like to attend the
lectures, please contact OSA Program Adminstrator, Adam Ebnit, at
adam.ebnit@nyu.edu or 212.998-4997 to RSVP.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Announcement: Environmental
Studies is pleased to announce that Colin Jerolmack has accepted a
joint appointment between Environmental Studies and Sociology,
beginning Fall 2008. During his first three semesters, Colin will be a
Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard. He
will arrive at NYU in Spring 2010, when he will be teaching our course
on Environment and Society.
(For a detailed schedule of FOCUS THE NATION TEACH IN events, please click on the pdf here.)
Panel 1: 11:00 – 1:00 Airing the Issues:how do we understand and change local air quality. An
introduction to the research, policy and design responses. Workshops in Kimmel 904
Panel 2: 2:30 — 4:30 Material Matters in Socio-Ecological Systems: how
do understand and improve the performance of coupled natural and social
systems. Workshops in Kimmel 904
6:00-8:00 PM
Keynote Presentation: Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, the Breakthrough Institiute - Eisner & Lubin Auditorium (4th floor) Kimmel
&
Panel Discussion: “Local solutions to the Climate Crisis”, Local Environmental Leaders and NYU Faculty - Eisner & Lubin Auditorium (4th floor) Kimmel
Pedro Da Silva Dias will be lecturing
on "The Large-Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Program in Amazonia (LBA):
recent findings on the role of moist convection."
Pedro Da Silva Dias is the director of the National Laboratory of Scientific Computing in Brazil.
The CAOS colloquium will be held on
Nov. 30, 2007
At 10:00 am
Room 101
Warren Weaver Hall (251 Mercer street).
Thursday, November 15, 2007
DEVRA DAVIS
"THE SECRET WAR ON CANCER"
NOVEMBER 15, 2007
4:00-5:00 PM
60
Washington Square South
Room: Kimmel 804-805
Devra Davis, Ph.D., M.P.H - Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
"For almost a century scientists
have known that the causes of cancer have extended well beyond old age and poor
genes. What used to be an older person’s disease has skewed younger and
younger, spurred on by elements found in our workplaces, homes, and even simple
changes in our lifestyle over time." In
her book, THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE WAR ON CANCER, award-winning scientist Devra
Davis tells the story she has wanted to reveal for over twenty years: how big
business, government, and scientists often knew well before the general public
what materials in our world caused cancer—but did nothing to stop these
materials from becoming part of our culture and our community.
To learn more about Devra Davis' book, come to her lecture and also download the PDF Poster here.
Friday, October 26, 2007
A Climate for Justice? Equity Imperatives in the Legal Response to Climate Change
A Symposium at New York University School of Law, Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South Presented by the NYU Environmental Law Society & Law Students for Human Rights 9:15am - 4:30pm
Climate
change affects us all, but not equally. How can - or must - emerging
international climate law address the disparate impact of climate
change on developing nations and vulnerable communities worldwide? How
can we equitably allocate climate risks and harms within the
constraints of the international system? Join us for a day of
discussion and debate, featuring:
*
Accounting for Future Generations - A debate between NYU Law Dean Ricky
Revesz, Yale economist Dr. William Nordhaus and Oxford philosopher Dr.
Henry Shue over how (or whether) the value of future lives should be
quantified in climate change policy calculations. Moderated by
Professor Dale Jamieson, Director of NYU's Environmental Studies
Program;
* Keynote speech by Henry Shue
*
Beyond Kyoto: Equity in Global Administrative Climate Change Law - IPCC
author and Director of NASA's Climate Impacts Group Dr. Cynthia
Rosenzweig, Director of NYU's Hauser Global Law School Professor
Richard Stewart, Resources for the Future's Ruth Greenspan Bell, and
others will explore emerging climate law regimes from an equity
perspective; and
*
Leveraging Human Rights Law for Climate Change Equity - A panel
including Professor Edith Weiss Brown, Francis Cabell Brown Professor
of International Law at Georgetown Law School, the Organization of
American States' Sustainable Energy Coordinator Cletus Springer and
World Resources Institute's Jacob Werksman will tackle the relevance of
human rights law to the effects of climate change.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Broadening Bioethics: Life, Health and Environment
Launch of the Center for Bioethics at NYU 5 Washington Place, 101 9:30am - 5:30pm
Environmental Studies Faculty Research Seminar Carbon cycle responses to climate warming in boreal and Arctic ecosystems are complicated by landscape context 3:30-5:00 pm Kimball Hall, 246 Greene Street, 301W Download a poster of the research seminar talk here.
Climate change at high latitudes: The importance of uncertainty, variability, and complex feedback 6:00-7:30pm Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center, 32
Waverly Place Download the PDF Poster here. RSVP here
Tuesday, October 9,2007
Environmental Studies Open House
285 Mercer Street, 9th Floor
Interested
in majoring or minoring in Environmental Studies? The Environmental
Studies Program will hold an information session for current and
potential Environmental Studies majors and minors next Tuesday 10/9
from 5:30-6:30pm. Please join us to meet ES faculty and administration,
learn about Environmental Studies at NYU, meet current students in the
Program, and ask us any questions you might have. Pizza and
refreshments will be served.
The ES Program is an integrated,
problem-oriented course of study across various disciplines and
schools. We offer opportunities to develop interests in a number of
areas, including environmental science; environmental values, policy,
and law; earth system science; public health; urban environmental
problems; climate change; energy systems; environmental monitoring;
environmental justice; and our complex relations with both domesticated
and wild nature.Please contact environmental.studies@nyu.edu with any
questions. We look forward to seeing you there.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Stephanie Pfirman, Barnard College
Environmental Studies Faculty Research Seminar
3:30-5:00 pm
Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room 406
Melting Arctic Ice: Climate
Change and Sustainable Development
6-7:30pm
Jeffrey S Gould Welcome Center
50 West Fourth St, Barasch Theater Download the PDF Poster here. RSVP here.
