Spring Quarter 2024
“Good News and Just Responses to Climate Change”
Katharine Hayhoe is an author, the Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy and hosted the PBS digital series, Global Weirding: Climate, Politics and Religion. She is the Endowed Professor in Public Policy and Public Law and Paul W. Horn Distinguished Professor and directs the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. She has a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Toronto and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Illinois.
She’s been named by Christianity Today as one of their 50 Women to Watch and Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Thinkers, FORTUNE magazine’s World’s Greatest Leaders and the United Nations Champion of the Earth in Science and Innovation. She's writes an influential newsletter that shares Climate Change good news and ways to respond - http://substack.com/@katharinehayhoe.
This lecture series is cohosted by SPU’s Office of Inclusive Excellence and Biology Department, and sponsored by a grant from the Supporting Structures: Innovative Partnerships to Enhance Bench Science at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) member institutions. The grant is supported by Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford, the UK subsidiary of the CCCU, with funding by the John Templeton Foundation and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.
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