Sustainability Seminar Series
About the Series
All seminars are held virtually and are certified green events by the University of Illinois’ Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment.
Archives of the seminars will be available on this page within a few weeks of the seminar’s completion.
The Sustainability Seminar Series continues each semester, usually one or two per month, with presentations by researchers, policy makers, and corporate executives on various topics related to sustainability, energy, and the environment. This series is an opportunity to share scientific research with peers in a relaxed, informal environment. Seminars usually last about an hour and questions are welcome.
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Seminar Archives
Nimir Elbashir, Ph.D. - Director of Texas A&M’s Engineering Experiment Station Gas & Fuels Research Center
November 4, 2024
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Deanna Hence, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Climate, Meteorology, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
October 30, 2024
Daphne Hulse - Zero Waste Coordinator, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
September 11, 2024
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Jonathon Moir, Ph.D. - Senior Program Manager at Beyond Benign for the Green Chemistry Teaching and Learning Community platform & Nimrat Obhi, Ph.D. - Program Manager for the Green Chemistry Teaching and Learning Community
April 9, 2024
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Autumn Haagsma, Ph.D. - Director of the Michigan Geological Repository for Research and Education and Assistant Director of the Michigan Geological Survey & John Yellich - Director of the Michigan Geological Survey
April 3, 2024
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Sean Hagen - President and Managing Director of Hagen Global Consulting, LLC; Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Global Energy Education, Inc.
March 19, 2024
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J. Gary Eden - Intel Alumni Endowed Chair Emeritus in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
February 14, 2024
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Stephanie Brownstein - Technical Lead, Carbon Capture Scale-Up, Illinois Sustainable Technology Center at the Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
November 7, 2023
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Tomasz Kozlowski, Ph.D. - Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
October 25, 2023
Benjamin Sovacool - Professor & Founding Director, Institute for Global Sustainability, Boston University, and Professor, University of Sussex
September 27, 2023
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Mim Rahimi, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston
March 28, 2023
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Richard Graves, Director of the Center for Sustainable Building Research and an Associate Professor in the College of Design at the University of Minnesota
March 15, 2023
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Masoud Jahandar Lashaki, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering at Florida Atlantic University
February 1, 2023
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Sergey Paltsev, Ph.D. - Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative and Deputy Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
December 8, 2022
Yu (Frank) Yang, Ph.D. - Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Nevada, Reno
December 6, 2022
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Wen Zhang, Ph.D. - Associate Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Newark College of Engineering
November 10, 2022
Veera Gnaneswar Gude, Ph.D. - Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at Purdue University Northwest
October 27, 2022
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Jane Paulson - Senior Engineer with the Minnesota Technical Assistance Program (MnTAP)
April 14, 2022
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Mihri Ozkan - Climate Action Champion Professor, University of California, Riverside
March 24, 2022
Jim Palardy - Project Director, Conservation Science Program, The Pew Charitable Trusts
March 10, 2022
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Cayla Cook - Principal Engineer and Contaminant Expert at Hazen and Sawyer
February 24, 2022
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