Honors Institute Student Eco-Researchers:

Foothill Students Present at Berkeley and Stanford Research Symposia

Foothill Students at the Berkeley Syposium May 2017

Six Foothill College Honors Students Presented at the Annual Northern California Community College Honors Symposium at The University of California Berkeley in May 2017.

Many of the papers written by our scholars were centered on challenges surrounding climate change; some of them include:

•Pills of Post-Truth: Updating Rachel Carson’s 1962 Silent Spring in an Era of Anthropogenic Climate Change, Ji Yuen Lee

• A Blackened Truth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and Amazonian Coal Production, Nicole Ronnie Miller

• China’s Emerging Global Leadership in Combating Climate Change: Hoax or Hope?, Shouwei Li

• Melting Harbingers: Avoiding Climate Disaster by Understanding Glacial Feedbacks, Aldin Verkler