#  HEEP Hosts Research and Career-Development Workshop for Fellows 

 





January 05, 2015

 

 

The Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) hosted a research workshop for [HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellows and alumni of the Fellows program](/people/people-terms/pre-doctoral-fellows) on October 23-24, 2014 at the Harvard Kennedy School. Approximately twenty alumni and twenty current doctoral students participated. The workshop included research presentations organized into topical panels. Among the topics were environment and health, energy efficiency, and energy-technology innovation. There was also an extended session in which alumni related experiences with and advice on career development, for the benefit of the current Pre-Doctoral Fellows.  
  
Both current and former Fellows found the workshop valuable. Among the comments from current students were:

- I was both encouraged and enlightened…It was great to see people ‘on the other side’ of Ph.D. graduation. Career and job market questions I did not know to ask were brought up.

- There was a great balance between content presentation (research) and general advice for those of us considering different types of careers. Both of these were very valuable.

   ![Pre-Doctoral Fellows listen to a presentation at the Alumni Workshop](/sites/g/files/omnuum8116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/heep/files/10.23.14researchworkshop060_750x500_0.jpg?itok=EWM4SZwg) 

 

*From left to right: Pre-Doctoral Fellows Todd Gerarden, Trisha Shrum, and Samuel Stolper listen to a presentation at the workshop.*

Alumni included members of economics faculties at New York University, Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, the University of Chicago’s Department of Economics and Harris School of Public Policy, INSEAD, and Tufts University; staff economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the Analysis Group, the Environmental Defense Fund, and Social Impact; and former Fellows who had served in the White House and the U.S. Energy Information Administration.  
  
HEEP is grateful to the [Harvard University Center for the Environment](http://environment.harvard.edu/) for major support for the workshop. The Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics at Harvard University also provided support.

*Photo credits: Martha Stewart*



 

 

 



 

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