Please join us Tuesday, October 25th at 12 pm for a virtual panel on the topic of “Open for Climate Justice” hosted by the Penn State University Libraries in celebration of the 14th annual Open Access Week. The virtual panel will highlight how the following Penn State faculty panelists have engaged with open research and data throughout their research in ways that have had an impact on climate justice. The session will be held virtually on Zoom and registration is required in order to attend the event.

Climate Justice is a term and a movement that acknowledges that climate change has many adverse effects on the world and its people, and that these effects are not being “borne equally or fairly, between rich and poor, women and men, and older and younger generations,” according to the United Nations. Open Access Week is focusing on Climate Justice this year, because openness to climate research allows for more equitable knowledge sharing and may serve to help address the inequities that shape the impacts of climate change and our response to them.

Hester Blum, Department of English, College of the Liberal Arts
Eric Crandall, Department of Biology, Eberly College of Science
Roberto Fernández, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Helen Greatrex, Department of Geography, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, and Department of Statistics, Eberly College of Science
Margarita López-Uribe, Department of Entomology, College of Agricultural Sciences
Mark Sentesy, Departments of Philosophy and Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, College of the Liberal Arts