This fall, the Global Change Center proudly celebrates the graduation of four exceptional students from the Interfaces of Global Change (IGC) Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program (IGEP).

These fellows have demonstrated a strong commitment to advancing solutions to complex environmental challenges through innovative research, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and science communication. As they complete their graduate journeys, each fellow leaves a mark on the IGC community and continues forward as a leader prepared to tackle the world’s most pressing global change issues.

 

Please join us in congratulating this semester's IGC IGEP graduates!

 
IGC Fellow

Brendan Shea

Evaluating the Conservation and Ecological Roles of Large Marine Protected Areas for Threatened Sharks

Defended on December 3, 2025

IGC Fellow

Victoria Hymel

Collaborative governance in the face of global change: a social science approach to working effectively at the human-wildlife-environment interface

Defended on December 8, 2025

IGC Fellow

Megan Harris

Hetero-functional Graph Theory for Convergent Systems of Systems: Model-Based Applications in Watershed and Economic Systems

Defended on December 9, 2025

IGC Fellow

Megan Moran

Disease Status, Occupancy, and Relative Activity of Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States

Defended on December 15, 2025

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The Interfaces of Global Change (IGC) program is an innovative interdisciplinary graduate education program offered by the Global Change Center designed to address the multidimensional aspects of global change (e.g., social, economic, environmental).  

Our Ph.D. students come from around the world and form a vibrant interdisciplinary community of scholars learning to collaborate, engage stakeholders, and effectively communicate. Our alumni are in positions of influence in academia, NGOs, government, and the private sector in the U.S. and abroad, tackling wicked problems like climate change, biodiversity loss, and water pollution.