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Where there’s fire, there’s smoke: New app estimates health impacts of breathing smoke from wildfires

A Harvard atmospheric modeling team including Assistant Professor Tianjia Liu, has created an online platform that could help communities identify areas in need of controlled burns or other wildfire management strategies, with the goal of preventing future uncontrolled fires and, more specifically, reducing smoke exposures.

Drs. Avery Everhart and Kate Hale receive 2024/25 Dean of Arts Faculty Research Awards

Congratulations to Assistant Professors Avery Everhart and Kate Hale who received the 2024/25 Dean of Arts Faculty Research Award. This annual award supports faculty to focus solely on research while providing teaching and administrative relief

Too Hot to Think Small: The Case for a Right to Cool in British Columbia

Geography professors Geraldine Pratt, Mohammed Rafi Arefin and Kinesiology faculty Liv Yoon launch their Right to Cool report, a call for bold, systemic action on extreme heat in British Columbia.

Research Profile: Rachel Stern – housing justice in the climate emergency

PhD candidate and Public Scholar Rachel Stern has been focused on the intersection of housing insecurity, heat vulnerability and aging for some time. Read more about her timely work.