IU Appoints Environmental Change Initiative Leaders

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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowIndiana University has appointed faculty members Gabriel Filippelli and Sarah Mincey as executive director and managing director, respectively, of the Prepared for Environmental Change Grand Challenge initiative. In their new roles, IU says Filippelli and Mincey will also share leadership responsibilities for the Environmental Resilience Institute.
Filippelli and Mincey will report succeed Janet McCabe, who was confirmed this week as deputy administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Filippelli is the chancellor’s professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at IUPUI and a founding member of ERI. Mincey, who is a clinical associate professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Bloomington, has directed the university’s Integrated Program in the Environment since 2014.
“We owe an extraordinary debt of gratitude to Janet for her leadership of IU’s Prepared for Environmental Change Grand Challenge,” said Fred Cate, vice president for research at IU. “We are fortunate to have in Gabe and Sarah, two talents with an extraordinary breadth of climate and environmental research, suited to continue advancing the important work of ERI, partnering with Hoosier communities and businesses to better understand and combat environmental challenges facing our state.”
IU says the institute, which launched in 2017 as part of the Grand Challenge initiative, includes a broad, bipartisan coalition of government, business, nonprofit and community leaders “working to help Indiana better prepare for the challenges that environmental changes bring to the economy, health and livelihood.”