Environment

Kim Cobb, new director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, wants to leverage Brown’s deep and diverse expertise across campus to create solutions with lasting, scalable impact for our planet.

Backed with alumni support, the newly formed Climate Social Science Network is working to understand why climate change has become such a divisive issue—and how to counter the misinformation and barriers to progress surrounding it.

From providing emergency support to students during a global pandemic to game-changing research in malaria, we're looking back at some important accomplishments supported by Brown donors in a year that was anything but ordinary.

Until her Voss Fellowship, Loren Albert did emissions research by climbing trees. Now, with the help of Assistant Professor Jim Kellner and drone technology, she has the whole forest in her sights.