PLuS Alliance

From Sea to Sky is a Spring 2026 hybrid panel series that uses archipelagic thinking to place island and desert studies in dialogue, examining how seemingly discrete landscapes are bound by shared histories, ecologies, and imaginaries.

Create the Change (CTC), supported by a President’s Special Initiative grant, addresses the moral, cultural, political, and economic complexities that hinder progress toward planetary health—challenges that cannot be solved by technology alone. The program mobilizes the social sciences and humanities in partnership with sustainability sciences to confront issues such as disinformation, social and environmental injustice, power imbalances, and cultural barriers.