Working in Mexico, while at times frustrating, carried with it a sense of fulfillment that I don’t believe I could have obtained working at a similar position within the states. Relating to both language and culture, I was confronted everyday with issues that I had never encountered before. Throughout the …
Publicado originalmente en La Voz, Edición Diciembre 2011. Por Ariadne Prior-Grosch La situación ambiental en el estado de Nueva York está muy dinámica con los proyectos de extracción del gas natural y la expiración de los permisos para los reactores nucleares en Indian Point. El Gobernador Andrew Cuomo tiene que tomar …
This November I found myself in Vietnam to travel and visit an old friend who happens to be an environmental engineer working on bio-energy projects in developing countries. While I was in town Emily had plans to attend a conference about Asia’s bio-energy production and I decided to tag along …
During the internship period, I learned a lot both from my instructors and my life in Europe. The semi-instructor that my professor assigned me was helpful in academic research. She showed me several pathways to work on papers and pointed out several of my research habits that need modification. For …
My work at the Landscape Institute of University of Freiburg was mainly doing research in relation to Germany and the UK’s renewable energy projects at the community level. My obligation was to contribute my research on renewable energy communities to the research team, and was I expected to turn in …
Bard CEP first year graduate students attended NYSERDA‘s Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation, and Protection in New York: “Linking Science and Policy” conference in Albany yesterday. It was a jam-packed day of presentations, discussion and networking covering a range of topics such as alternative energy technologies, modeling/mapping tools, biomass heating and natural gas …
The Institute of International Education and the Fulbright Program’s sponsor, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, sent its congratulations today on the announcement that Bard College is one of this year’s Fulbright Scholarship “top producers.” Top-producing institutions in all Carnegie Classifications were highlighted in the October …
This past Friday, BardCEP Environmental Policy graduate students attended the keynote address at the Hannah Arendt Center’s fourth annual conference, “Truthtelling: Democracy in an Age Withought Facts.” The keynote address was given by Naomi Oreskes, co-author of “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues …
