News & Events

Upcoming Events

Event Archive

Photon of community members in Zanzibar

Community engagement course brings students to Zanzibar

This summer, seven undergraduates traveled to Zanzibar for the continuation of our Working For and With Communities program, which gives students the opportunity to work alongside people around the world to explore solutions to seemingly intractable problems.
Welcome Sign

Schiller Institute names 22 艾可直播to new affiliates program

The Institute has formalized its relationship with a cohort of 艾可直播from around the university. This group of affiliated 艾可直播will consult on programs and new hires and in return will have priority access to the state-of-the-art facilities and top-notch staff of the Schiller Institute.
Aerial image of CFMIP conference attendees

Largest meeting of international climate modeling conference held at 艾可直播 College

Climate scientists from around the world gathered at 艾可直播 College this summer to discuss clouds and cloud cover, one of the most complicated variables in predicting the course and effects of climate change.
Tractor working the fields

The global nitrous oxide budget

BC researchers lead comprehensive worldwide assessment of potent greenhouse gas.
Figure from Professor Wang and Huang's proposal

Latest round of seed grant winners announced

The Schiller Institute has announced its latest cohort of grant recipients in the SI-GECS and SI-RITEA programs. Learn more about the projects that will be conducted during the upcoming academic year.
Jier Huang at ACS Spring 2024

Schiller Core 艾可直播member leads multidisciplinary idea exchange at American Chemical Society meeting

Professor Jier Huang led a three-day symposium on how a technology known as quantum dot assemblies could improve the energy storage and generation landscape.
2024 艾可直播 Sustainability Competition participants

Case competition gets students involved in dining sustainability

Teams of undergraduates took part in a case competition in support of BC Dining鈥檚 efforts to reduce food waste and increase the adoption of sustainable dinnerware during the second annual 艾可直播 Sustainability Competition.
Bryan Ranger and two students in a lab

Across the disciplines

BC 艾可直播and students team up for a project team up for a project targeting infant malnutrition.
View from inside 245 Beacon Street

Interdisciplinary researchers tend to be more collaborative, curious, and intellectually humble
Jier Huang

Harvesting energy from CO2

BC scientist Jier Huang works toward launch of a sunlight-powered catalyst.
Hanqin Tian

Hanqin Tian to lead new Schiller Institute center

Tian will direct the Center for Earth Systems Science and Global Sustainability
COP28 logo

Dispatches from Dubai

Faculty and students attending the COP28 U.N. Climate Change Conference briefed the BC community live online
Conevery Bolton Valencius

Shaky ground

Historian Conevery Bolton Valencius explores the impact of human-caused earthquakes.
Summer Hawkins

Associate director named for BC Global Public Health program

BCSSW's Summer Sherburne Hawkins assumes the inaugural role.
graphic of a lush landscape next to the same view dried up

A climate for opportunity

BC undergrads consider careers related to climate change.
245 Beacon Street, home of the Schiller Institute

A Wide Search for New Core Faculty Begins鈥擶ith A Focus on Health

The Schiller Institute is looking for three new people to join its team. Two will be scientists who study the effects of the changing climate on health. The third will be a social scientist.
Senior Research Fellow, Javiera Garcia-Meneses, Ph.D.

Schiller鈥檚 New Senior Research Fellow Studies How Organizations Can Be More Collaborative and Community-Oriented

Schiller welcomes its new Senior Research Fellow, Javiera Garcia-Meneses, Ph.D. As a specialist in psychology and social transformations, she鈥檒l examine how interdisciplinary centers are structured and managed, and how to boost collaboration across departments.
Outside of the Service Building, which houses the Schiller Institute Core Faculty鈥檚 Collaborative Computational Research Space

New Home for Schiller Institute Core Faculty鈥檚 Collaborative Computational Research

BC鈥檚 Service building has undergone significant renovations, including a state-of-the-art computational research facility designed to foster collaboration.
Photo of a data science related activity.

Schiller-led Committee Helps Shape Future of Data Science Education at BC

Proposals for a 艾可直播 College master鈥檚 degree and a minor concentration in Data Science were refined by an interdisciplinary committee of educators, led by the Schiller Institute.
plastic waste

Plastic pollution

BC hosts panel discussion on UN plastics treaty.

SchillerNow聽is the newsletter of the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society at 艾可直播 College. Please enjoy the following issues.

Quick Links

Back To Top