Announcing the 2025-26 IGC Curriculum Committee

Welcoming the 2025-26 IGC Curriculum Committee

It's time to celebrate the dedicated service of the IG3C and welcome our newest members!

Several Global Change Center faculty members and IGC Fellows have recently completed their terms on the IG3C. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Jennifer Russell, Alasdair Cohen, Bailey Howell, and Emma Hultin for their contributions. Special appreciation goes to Jennifer Russell for her outstanding leadership over the past three years, serving as the inaugural Senior Faculty Fellow (2024-25), IG3C Chair (2023-24) and Co-chair (2022-23). Jennifer’s efforts have been instrumental in guiding the committee and supporting the professional development of our IGC Fellows. To the entire IG3C team, thank you for your unwavering commitment to our collective success.

We are excited to introduce our newest IG3C members, who will be joining us for two-year terms starting this August; Beth Nyboer and Tess Thompson.

Brian Badgley is now the Senior Faculty Fellow. Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz will be serving his second year as Cohort Chair, with Kelly Cobourn stepping into her first year in that role. Luis Escobar is returning to the IG3C after his sabbatical alongside second year member Korine Kolivras. Finally, we welcome our two student representatives, Katie Hoffman and Zoie McMillian.

Thank you, everyone, for your hard work and commitment!

Welcome to our new IG3C members!

A special thank you to these outgoing IG3C members!

We deeply appreciate your time, energy, and balanced guidance in this leadership role. 

The Interfaces of Global Change Curriculum Committee (IG3C) is the primary entity responsible for visioning, oversight, and implementation of the IGC IGEP curriculum.  Primary duties entail visioning, planning, and delivering of the annual fall and spring seminar courses.  These duties include ensuring continuity of existing high-quality graduate programming, as well as ideation and visioning to meet the evolving programmatic needs of the growing, diverse IGC IGEP student population.