Named one of TIME Magazine’s 2014 100 Most Influential People for her work as a climate scientist and communicator—“an environmental evangelist”—Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, part of the Department of Interior’s South-Central Climate Science Center. She is also founder and CEO of ATMOS Research, an organization aimed at bridging the gap between scientists and stakeholders to provide relevant, state-of-the-art information on…

The next San Antonians for Peacebuilding meeting will be Mon., Feb. 2, 7:00 PM, Madison Square Presbyterian Church, (Fellowship Building, 2nd Floor), located at 319 Camden Street at Lexington Ave. downtown. Susan Ives from the peaceCENTER will talk about current initiatives and upcoming events.

Jorge Durand, Ph.D. is a research professor of anthropology at the University of Guadalajara. His research initiative will consist of comprehensive survey data assembled by the Mexican Migration Project to test the hypothesis that the 1986 U.S. policy of border crackdowns and legalization drives transformed the nature of Mexican immigration to this country in ways the legislators never fully anticipated.