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  • Sarah Ives '03

    February 15, 2019

    After spending a year interning and then working at the National Geographic Society, Sarah entered graduate school and completed a PhD in anthropology from Stanford University.  She published her first book, Steeped in Heritage: The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea, with Duke University Press in 2017. The book is based on more than fifteen months of research in rural South Africa and a decade-long engagement with the rooibos-tea-growing region.  

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  • Greg Barry '73

    February 15, 2019
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    Greg Barry '73 Graduated with Geography and Urban Studies degree. His first job was with a firm led by the Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning,  working on a contract with Athens, Greece, doing survey analysis aimed at determining how to change the incentives to have people not crowd into Athens and instead live and work in smaller locations like Piraeus.

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  • Snow-related water woes

    October 30, 2018

    As Justin Mankin, Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College, USA, notes “On the one hand, snow is simple — you heat it up, it melts”. Full article

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  • Heat and Humidity Are a Killer Combination

    October 11, 2018

    Climate science tells us that in the future, combinations of heat and humidity could be so extreme that the evaporation of human sweat may not sufficiently cool our bodies.

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  • Rise In 'Extreme Precipitation'

    August 20, 2018

    In 1996, the Northeastern U.S saw a sudden increase in the number of "extreme precipitation" events. And ever since then, that number has stayed elevated.  Full story

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