Faculty Lecture Series
The 2025 lecture series features faculty members leading cutting-edge research in climate science and related solutions, with a focus on understanding the complex processes underlying our climate, developing new technologies for mitigating climate-changing factors, and adapting to new climate conditions.
Past Lectures
Since 2020, our Faculty Lecture Series has featured talks by a wide range of experts on topics like AI ethics, clean water, renewable energy systems, advanced manufacturing, and more. Examples of some of the lectures include:
"Revealing nature's secrets: a chemical forensics approach to decode the information stored in water"
Gerrard Jones, Assistant Professor, Biological and Ecological Engineering
"What it takes to take down a dam"
Desiree Tullos, professor of biological and ecological engineering
"Earthquake resilience of the electrical grid"
Ted Brekken, professor of electrical and computer engineering
"Doing inclusive design: From GenderMag to InclusiveMag"
Margaret Burnett, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
"From brine to mineral: Extracting minerals and clean water from brines using a thermal cycle and machine learning-based design"
Bahman Abbasi, associate professor of mechanical engineering and Welty Faculty Fellow
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