Kurt Waldman leads on a new paper published in Global Environmental Change. Results highlight smallholder farmer seed and climate perceptions in Southern Zambia. Congrats Kurt, Jordan, and Tom!
Colorado Climate Retreat
The purpose of the Colorado Climate Retreat was to examine recent and emerging research on the interface of climate change and social psychology, broadly construed. The meeting disseminated findings to students, researchers, students, policy makers, and the general public. Presenters included faculty and graduate students from psychology, political science, environmental studies, and theater and dance. Following public presentations on Friday, the presenters spent much of Saturday discussing future directions for collaborative, programmatic research.
Perceptions of water systems
Another new labber: Warm welcome to Shahera Omar
Shahera Omar is a Fulbright Scholar and a Master of Public Affairs student in SPEA. She is interested in psychology and development, and she is from the beautiful country of Sri Lanka. She is a foodie and loves to squash cute things, especially her cats, Molan and Pakeer, which translate to "Idiot" and "Fool." Broadly, she will be working with Kurt Waldman et al. on understanding which decision science theories can be used to study smallholder farmer decision making in Africa.
Warm welcome to Tyler Marghetis!
Tyler Marghetis joins our Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow in SPEA and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. He studies the limits of human imagination — how we [fail to] understand concepts that lie beyond the reach of perception and action — and implications for mitigating climate change, educating STEM experts, and creating a more just society. Before becoming a card-carrying Scientist, he was a child detective, then a professional magician, and finally a national team wrestler. Today, he likes bikes, books, and bourbon.
Party in the woods - celebrating the end of semester
Leader for the greater good!
Just received this award from SPEA undergraduate students - 2016-2017 Leader for the greater good! Love our students (and love that they trust me with a solid glass ball!!). Thank you.
Shahzeen receives Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
"The Outstanding Junior Faculty Award is designed to identify our most promising untenured tenure-track faculty from throughout the campus. It provides resources to enable these faculty members to further develop their scientific, scholar or artistic activities. Those selected to win this prestigious honor have begun to develop nationally recognized research programs, and devoted productive time to the teaching and service missions of the university."
Congrats to Janine, Adam, and Daniel!!
Janine, Adam, and Daniel receive a Sustainability Research Grant from IU's Office of Sustainability to investigate why people think of ineffective actions to decrease resource use. Congrats!!! Go Labbers!!!
Shahzeen gives keynote at undergraduate cognitive science conference
Looking forward to hearing and meeting these stellar midwestern undergrads! See you Saturday.
Shahzeen gives plenary talk on water use at Michigan State University
Claire presents her research at IU's Sustainability Symposium
Kudos to Claire Dorner, presenting her research as a Freshman and 2020 Sustainability Student!
Shahzeen heads to her alma mater - UIUC
Shahzeen will be presenting her water research at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), her alma mater where she earned her BS in Engineering Physics. See you there!
Shaz receives SPEA Student Choice Award
Professors Shahzeen Attari and Beth Cate have been selected by the School of Public and Environmental Affairs’ undergraduate student community to receive the Leader for the Greater Good Award - Undergraduate for 2017 SPEA Student Choice Awards. This award was created to recognize the professor who best embodies SPEA’s spirit by giving back, spending time outside of class supporting students and student organizations, volunteering to help out at student events and supporting the school monetarily.
Colloquium at CU Boulder
Shahzeen will be giving the Environmental Studies Colloquium on Friday March 24 at University of Colorado Boulder. She will be discussing her new work with Dave Krantz and Elke Weber on ad hominem attacks on climate researchers. See you there.
Steven receives the A. James Barnes Scholarship
Steven is a recipient of the A. James Barnes Scholarship, named after Jim Barnes, a SPEA faculty member, who is a nationally recognized environmental law and policy expert. Jim also participated in the formation of the EPA. This award honors students who have demonstrated leadership potential and a strong interest in public service. Congrats!
Shaz will be a CASBS fellow at Stanford University
"Imagine a place where great minds are brought together to confront the problems of the day, where original interdisciplinary thinking is the norm, where extraordinary collaborations become possible, where ideas can change our world." That is the mission of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Yep, that is where Shaz will be for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018! :)
Shaz awarded IU Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
The award, presented by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs, celebrates tenure-track faculty working on nationally recognized research or creative programs.
Janine heads to Taiwan!
Janine Tang will be heading to Taipei, Taiwan this summer (2017) for the International Chinese Language Program at National Taiwan University. She is completing this program as a part of her Chinese studies through the IU Chinese Flagship program.
NSF Award: Understanding and correcting misperceptions of energy use
Shahzeen Attari (PI) and David Landy (co-PI) receive an NSF award for their proposed work to understand and correct misperceptions of energy use.
More details on the NSF website: