Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2023-2024 Ph.D. Student, Department of Chemistry Research Summary: I use techniques from machine learning, applied mathematics, and quantum chemistry to design novel renewable biofuels that are both clean-burning and sustainable. Using the results of accurate, high-throughput calculations,
Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2023-2024 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology Research Summary: Given the global transition away from carbon-dependent economies and growing tendency towards internationalization of mining activities, there is an increase of international regulations and environmental local policies are rapidly
Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2023-2024 Ph.D. Student, Department of Economics Research Summary: My research aims to build a developing country macroeconomic model to analyze the effect of clean-energy transition on inequality in the long run. Majority of the climate-change models, used
Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2023-2024 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Construction Management and the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Research Summary: I am studying the impacts of wildfires on U.S. lumber supply chains. Global climate change has resulted in frequent wildfire
Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2023-2024 Ph.D. Student, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences Research Summary: Conventional produced water (PW) is a byproduct of conventional oil and gas production which doesn’t involve hydraulic fracturing or horizontal drilling throughout the drilling process. Owing
Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2023-2024 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: When agricultural crops are harvested, a portion of the plant remains in the field. Over time, some of this
Sustainability Leadership Fellow Cohort: 2023-2024 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Agricultural Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology Research Summary: Environmental change, like pollution events or climate warming, can cause animal and plant populations to decline. One strategy that can enable populations