SU scientist awarded nearly $1 million in grants for climate change study

BATON ROUGE, LA — Southern University’s Urban Forestry Program Professor Dr. Zhu H. Ning has received two nationally competitive funding awards totaling nearly $1 million to study climate change in the U.S. and China.

Both grants will help SU students in the study of the effects of climate change.

NASA awarded her $725,512 for her project “An Ecosystem Approach to Climate Change Education.” The second award, $150,000, is from the National Science Foundation for her project “IRES: Enhancing Global Competence and Research Skills in Climate Change and Urban Ecosystems through Collaborative Research in China.”