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Students building a cooling shelter in Hunting Park to addressing the urban heat island effect.

New NRT Grant

Shu Yang and Collaborators Receive NSF Grant for Multidisciplinary Graduate Program across Engineering and Architecture, Penn Engineering Today (December 3, 2024)

Dorit Aviv portrait

Dorit Aviv Interviewed in NPR Climate Solutions Article (9 June 2025)

NRT Climate Care Co-PI Dorit Aviv was interviewed (as part of NPR’s Climate Solutions Week series) in an article entitled 5 simple (and cheap) things to make your house use less energy”.

Dorit emphasizes that Climate solutions for reducing home energy use can be extremely simple — and sometimes even free.”

Read about Dorit’s climate solutions tips here.