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University of California, Berkeley

To further grow and diversify the field of energy and environmental economics through training programs that engage students and early-career scholars from multiple universities

  • Amount $1,500,000
  • City Berkeley, United States
  • Investigator Meredith Fowlie
  • Year 2023
  • Program Research
  • Sub-program Energy and Environment

The goal of this project is to grow and diversify the field of energy and environmental (EEE) economics by supporting an integrated set of training and early-career scholar engagement efforts taking place at the Energy Institute at Haas, based at the University of California, Berkeley. Four programmatic activities will be funded through this grant. The first is Grad Camp, a week-long, summer training course that brings 60 graduate students per year from across North American universities to the University of California, Berkeley for a rigorous introduction to cutting-edge research in EEE. The second is Energy Camp, a multi-day, early-summer gathering of 60 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty, and more established faculty to share and work on early-stage research projects. Three promising graduate students from the previous year’s Grad Camp will be invited to attend and present at the next year’s Energy Camp. The third is the EEE Undergraduate Mentoring Program, undertaken in partnership with Berkeley’s Opportunity Lab, which will prepare 18 Black, Indigenous, and Latina/o/x undergraduates per year at Berkeley for EEE graduate study by pairing these students with graduate student and faculty mentors. The fourth is research funding for two EEE graduate students per year that are working on seed projects designed to produce publicly available datasets or outputs that can be used by other scholars in the field. This proposal will help ensure that these programs will continue to enrich the EEE field and train the next generation scholars from a diverse range of backgrounds and institutions.

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