Science, Environment and Development Group

Dr. Jennie Stephens
Department of International Development, Community, and Environment
IDCE House
Clark University
10 Hawthorne Street
Worcester, MA 01610
USA
Tel: (1) 508-793-8846
Email: jstephens@clarku.edu
Clark University web page: http://www.clarku.edu/departments/idce/faculty/stephens.cfm
Group affiliation: Collaborator, Post-doctoral Research Fellow (2003-2004)

Jennie C. Stephens is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Clark University in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment. She is also affiliated with the Science, Environment and Development Group and the Energy Technology Innovation Project at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government where she was previously a research fellow. Her current research focuses on government involvement in the advancement of climate change mitigation technologies in both the U.S. and developing countries. Technologies associated with CO2 capture and storage have been a recent focus of her work. Other research interests have included assessing chemical approaches to carbon storage as well as analyzing the strategic use of scientific and technical information in government-industry interactions during the development and implementation of environmental regulations. Stephens was a visiting lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2004-2005, and she has also taught at both Boston University and Tufts University. She earned her PhD (2002) and MS (1998) in Environmental Science and Engineering at the California Institute of Technology and her BA (1997) in Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard.