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Well in hand<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Keogh, editor-in-chief<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was especially hot<\/strong> and humid on the Clark campus, and getting hotter\u2014the kind of day we beg for in the winter and complain about in the summer. August in Worcester is like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melissa Hoffer, the chief climate officer for Massachusetts, was unbothered by the rising temperature when I met her by the library for a quick walk to the Shaich Family Alumni and Student Engagement Center. She\u2019d graciously accepted our irresistible offer to make the drive to Clark to have her photo taken as accompaniment to an interview I\u2019d done with her weeks earlier (you can read the story on page 46).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoffer was fully comfortable during the photo shoot in the consummate Clark setting\u2014the view from the ASEC plaza to Jonas Clark Hall is one of our most striking\u2014but she truly became animated during her conversation with Clark students Nate Kidd \u201926, Aidan Humphreys \u201926, and Jamie Young \u201927, who told her about their research this past summer as fellows in the Human-Environment Regional Observatory program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the cover: Ava Soch \u201928 photographed by Steve King<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Her curiosity and respect for their work were genuine, and at conversation\u2019s end, our students readily agreed to speak to the Youth Climate Council, a statewide coalition of high school students who advise the governor on climate policy and actions. A hot day turned out to be a very good day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to late September, where in the basement photo studio of the Marketing and Communications building, Ava Soch \u201928 had the whole world in her hands. You can see Ava\u2019s fingers on the cover of this magazine, cradling a small glass globe. In the image, you\u2019ll spot Africa, Europe, and the Middle East as it disappears around the horizon\u2019s curve. Brazil peeks out from beneath her right thumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you don\u2019t see is Cranston, Rhode Island. That\u2019s my hometown, and Ava\u2019s, too. While this issue is dedicated to the citizens living in all corners of a changing planet, it\u2019s also an homage to the places we know so well, that in our mind\u2019s eye never change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world is a big place, until it feels small. We can\u2019t let it slip from our grasp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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