CU to Host Economics Lecture Focused on Climate Change
PA (11/11/2024) — Princeton University economics professor Seema Jayachandran will give a lecture, "Opportunities to Mitigate Climate Change," on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 2 p.m. in Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg's Kehr Union, Multipurpose Rooms.
The lecture will also be live-streamed, and the link will be available at commonwealth.edu/economics-lectures.
Jayachandran is a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Her research focuses on environmental conservation, gender equality, and other microeconomic topics in developing countries.
She serves on the board of directors of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and leads J-PAL's gender sector. She is also co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's program in Development Economics and co-editor of American Economic Review: Insights. In addition, she serves on CARE's board of directors.
Prior to joining Princeton, she was a faculty member at Northwestern University and Stanford University. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, a master's degree in physics and philosophy from the University of Oxford where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from MIT.
For more information about the lectures, contact Mehdi Haririan, professor of economics, at 570-389-4682.
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