Tag: Climate Change Solutions Fund

  • Nation & World

    10 teams tackle climate change

    Ten research teams at Harvard will share $1.3 million in the eighth round of the Climate Change Solutions Fund awards, which address both local and global issues.

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    Wildfires in Sierra Nevada.
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    Toll of climate change on workers

    Economist Patrick Behrer is tracking the health effects of working in an extremely hot environment and the ripple effects on the economy.

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    Patrick Behrer in Harvard Square.
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    Facing up to climate change

    Harvard President Larry Bacow examines the University’s multifaceted role in the battle against climate change.

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    Tackling climate change through study

    Harvard’s Climate Change Solutions Fund, now in its fifth year, is awarding seven research projects $1 million in grants.

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    Thermovision of house.
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    New grants for climate solutions

    Seven new research projects have been awarded funding in the fourth round of grants from Harvard’s Climate Change Solutions Fund.

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    7 projects win funding for climate change solutions

    Seven Harvard projects will share $1 million to help battle climate change across a range of academic boundaries.

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    Hunting polluting gases around Boston

    Students, faculty, and fellows are fanning out across the Boston area to take measurements aimed at determining where and how much natural gas is leaking and where the worst carbon dioxide emissions occur.

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    $1M in grants to support 10 climate research projects

    Ten research projects driven by faculty collaborators across six Harvard Schools will share over $1 million in the second round of grants awarded by the Climate Change Solutions Fund, an initiative launched last year by President Drew Faust to encourage multidisciplinary research around climate change.

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    President Faust’s climate initiative awards $1M in grants

    The recipients of grants awarded by the Climate Change Solutions Fund, an initiative launched last year by President Drew Faust, were announced. The 10 winning projects are purposely diverse in focus, ranging from policy and law to science and health. Several use Harvard’s campus as a “living laboratory” — when possible — for testing and…

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  • Nation & World

    Wanted: Climate change solutions

    Harvard will again fund grants of up to $150,000 for promising ideas to combat climate change.

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    Support for seven from president’s climate fund

    Seven research projects aimed at confronting the challenge of climate change using the levers of law, policy, and economics, as well as public health and science, have been awarded grants in the inaugural year of President Drew Faust’s Climate Change Solutions Fund.

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    Energy research wins grant

    Harvard chemist Cynthia Friend has been awarded a major center grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Basic Energy Sciences’ Energy Frontier Research Centers program, which is designed “to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build the 21st-century energy economy.”

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    Fund to tackle climate change

    In an effort to catalyze research into sustainable energy sources, Harvard President Drew Faust has challenged University friends and alumni to raise a $20 million Climate Change Solutions Fund and seed new approaches to confronting the threat of climate change.

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