The JUSTICE Collaboratory sits at the intersection of many of UConn’s research strengths – health equity, clean technologies, climate science, community resilience, and extension education – and leverages existing centers & institutes including the CLEAN EARTH Laboratory, the Atmospheric Sciences Group (which Seth leads); the Connecticut Institute for Resilience & Climate Adaptation (CIRCA); the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP); and the Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR). 

“We aren’t starting from scratch and working together – we’ve worked together in a lot of different capacities,” Atkinson-Palombo points out.