Energy Awards

Two HUCE faculty associates, Michael Aziz and Joanna Aizenberg, won energy grants through the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy. Learn more about their innovative energy technologies.

Climate Change & Security Risks

A new Harvard report probes the security risks of climate change and extreme weather, and recommends investments in monitoring and forecasting to prepare for growing threats.

Extreme Weather

Scientists, including HUCE director Dan Schrag, fear that extreme weather will become the new normal. Learn more about his thoughts on Hurricane Sandy and its relationship to climate change.

Energy

Professor Daniel Nocera will make the jump from MIT to Harvard this January, and will bring along his "artificial leaf," a device that may soon power the world's poor. Learn more about his photovoltaic device.

Green Business

Professor Joseph Lassiter works to link business and the environment. "To solve problems as dramatic as the ones we face, we need action in the scientific and business communities, or we won't get rapid, efficient change that the world demands," he says.

Climate Change

HUCE faculty associate James McCarthy was appointed to the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. Learn more about his new post, which includes communicating climate change reports and recommendations to the president and Congress.

Law & the Environment

Richard Lazarus, Executive Director of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill & Offshore Drilling, utilizes his knowledge of environmental law to craft the committee's report.

Speaking Up For Science

D.C. a challenge but policy influence is essential, says ex-NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco during a HUCE special lecture

May 20, 2013

Urgent Prep Work

Climate science, disaster relief converge at HUCE co-sponsored conference

May 19, 2013

New Investigators Named

HUCE faculty associates Cohen, Hoekstra appointed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute

May 17, 2013

News Archive

Thursday 30

Arnold Arboretum Lecture

"The Physical Fitness of Leaves" with Steven Vogel, Ph.D., Research Professor, Duke University

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

Friday 14

New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable

ISO-New England's Generation Retirement Study & 2020 Resource Options for New England

9:00 am - 12:15 pm

Foley Hoag LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, 13th Floor, Boston

In this issue:
Rising Seas, Rising Worries — Harvard researchers investigate Boston's watery future.

Maine's Fox Islands Have Become a Clean Energy Lab for "Island Earth" — Harvard professor George Baker used wind power to transform the energy landscape of Vinalhaven Island.

Announcements

Did you miss any of our Future of Energy talks this spring semester? Watch the videos here.

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