{"id":965,"date":"2015-03-30T13:36:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T13:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/?p=965"},"modified":"2015-06-13T04:35:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T04:35:32","slug":"attending-the-3rd-annual-hbcu-student-climate-change-conference-march-26-29-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/2015\/03\/30\/attending-the-3rd-annual-hbcu-student-climate-change-conference-march-26-29-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Attending the 3rd Annual HBCU Student Climate Change Conference, March 26-29, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2015\/03\/IMG_0084_12.jpg\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"IMG_0084_1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-975\" height=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2015\/03\/IMG_0084_12.jpg\" style=\"float: left\" width=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2015\/03\/IMG_0084_12.jpg 342w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2015\/03\/IMG_0084_12-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n\t&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 20.8000011444092px;text-align: center\"><strong>Dr. Ko <\/strong>attended the 3rd Annual HBCU Student Climate &nbsp;Change Conference, held in New Orleans, from March&nbsp;26-29, 2015, hosted by the&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dscej.org\/\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em\"><strong style=\"line-height: 20.8000011444092px;text-align: center\">Deep South Center&nbsp;for Environmental Justice<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 20.8000011444092px;text-align: center\">, Dillard &nbsp;University .<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 20.8000011444092px;text-align: center\">&nbsp;Students&nbsp;and faculty members from 21 HBCU &nbsp;institutions across&nbsp;the&nbsp;nation, including &nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 20.8000011444092px;text-align: center\">Jackson State &nbsp;University<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 20.8000011444092px;text-align: center\">, discussed the challenges and health risks of &nbsp;minority communities near polluting industrial facilities, &nbsp;and&nbsp;associated environmental justice, and potential &nbsp;health risks of minority communities driven by the climate &nbsp;change. <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 20.8000011444092px;text-align: center\">During the Conference, they also discussed &nbsp;logistics &nbsp;regarding sending the HBCU delegation to the &nbsp; upcoming &nbsp;2015 UN Climate Change Conference, in Paris, France, from Nov. 30, to Dec. 11, 2015. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong style=\"line-height: 20.8000011444092px;text-align: center\">&nbsp;Dr. Ko<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 20.8000011444092px;text-align: center\"> gave a presentatation (titled, &#039;Challenges in developing and &nbsp;implementing coastal protection projects against increasing sea level &nbsp;rise: A case study of the Caernarvon river diversion in Louisiana.&#039;), and &nbsp;built networks with the faculty members from other HBCU institutions on &nbsp;coastal management, and devoted efforts to recruit students for the &nbsp;Public Policy Program at Jackson State University.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Dr. Ko attended the 3rd Annual HBCU Student Climate &nbsp;Change Conference, held in New Orleans, from March&nbsp;26-29, 2015, hosted by the&nbsp;Deep South Center&nbsp;for Environmental Justice, Dillard &nbsp;University . &nbsp;Students&nbsp;and faculty members from 21 HBCU &nbsp;institutions across&nbsp;the&nbsp;nation, including &nbsp;Jackson State &nbsp;University, discussed the challenges and health risks of &nbsp;minority communities near polluting industrial facilities, &nbsp;and&nbsp;associated environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}