Dr. David Ciplet receives ר Nexus award for research related to AI and climate change
The ר Nexus program announced its 2024 seed grant awards to interdisciplinary research teams from the University of ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® Anschutz Medical Campus and the University of ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® Boulder. Collectively, the seven winning teams will receive $713,000 in funding to advance cutting-edge research that improves human health and well-being.Ìý
David Ciplet (¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® Boulder) and Katherine LeMasters (¾«Í¯ÓûÅ® Anschutz) were part of these winning teams for their research project: "Investigating Extreme Health Risks at the Nexus of Climate Change, IncarcerationÌýand Societal Re-entry in ¾«Í¯ÓûÅ®".
This project is investigating how climate change could have a disproportionately negative effect on ¾«Í¯ÓûŮ’s prison population—and how to mitigate those impacts and improve inmate health in the face of rising temperatures.