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Postdoc opportunity! 📣 IBES seeks candidates for the distinguished Voss Postdoctoral Fellowship in any field relevant to environmental research. Appointments start July 2027 with an expected term of two years.

Learn more and submit step-one proposals by September 1, 2026: https://ibes.brown.edu/opportunities/postdoctoral-researchers

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We invite the Brown community and our friends around the world to join together in observing a moment of silence to mark six months since the shooting that occurred on our campus on December 13, 2025.

We acknowledge the void left by the two members of the Brown family we lost, and the pain that our entire community has carried since that day. We recognize our community’s grief and its resilience, and the continued healing that is part of our shared experience.

We are ever true.

Through The Swearer Center at Brown University's Royce Fellowship program, eight students affiliated with IBES will conduct community-engaged research spanning environmental justice, food sovereignty, conservation biology, and Indigenous land stewardship. Learn more:

IBES-affiliated students named 2026 Royce Fellows Through the Swearer Center program, eight students affiliated with IBES will conduct community-engaged research spanning environmental justice, food sovereignty, conservation biology, and Indigenous land stewardship.

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What’s a more sustainable way to store our cheese? In part two of Possibly’s series on the dairy industry, we’re turning our attention to an age-old method used to efficiently store cheese

One year after announcing its inaugural set of working groups, Brown University's Equitable Climate Futures initiative, led by IBES, has determined a second cohort of awardees, with projects ranging from local environmental justice to Indigenous climate action in the Amazon. https://ecf.brown.edu/news/2026-05-11/ecf-2026-awards
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What creates more carbon pollution: beef or dairy? We talk a lot about the carbon pollution that comes along with eating beef, but this week on Possibly we’re asking: what about eating dairy? How do they compare?

Over Commencement and Reunion Weekend, community members gathered for the ENVS Cocktail Party, ocean and plastics scholars shared insights at IBES' Commencement Forum, and classmates, families, and friends celebrated during the Environmental Sciences and Studies Departmental Ceremony 🎓🐻🌎

View photos, videos, and highlights from the weekend on our website: https://ibes.brown.edu/news/2026-05-28/commencement-recap-2026

"Two books about China’s ancient past" — including IBES and Brown University History Department Associate Professor Brian Lander's "The King's Harvest" — "offer very different perspectives on its place in the world today," Tobie Meyer-Fong writes for the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB). Read on: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ancient-china-brian-lander-jessica-rawson-civilization-environment/

“These two books about China’s ancient past offer readers very different perspectives on China’s place in the world today: One familiarizes the history of ancient China by linking it to current ecological anxieties, the other taps into and amplifies an enduring fascination with the exotically long ago and far away.”

Tobie Meyer-Fong reviews Jessica Rawon’s “Life and Afterlife In Ancient China” and Brian Lander’s “The King’s Harvest.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ancient-china-brian-lander-jessica-rawson-civilization-environment/

Congratulations, ENVS Class of 2026! Sunday's rain couldn't dampen the spirits of our graduates and their families, as dozens of community members gathered to celebrate 's academic journeys and all that lies ahead for the next generation of climate leaders 🌍🎓🐻