The Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute seeks to contribute to a resilient, equitable, and sustainable climate future. RCEI connects faculty, staff, and students through transformative climate change research, innovation, education, and outreach.

Applications Close March 27

RCEI Clean Energy Fellowship Program

Application Window: September 15 to October 31, 2025

The RCEI Clean Energy Fellowship Program is a prestigious, paid opportunity offered in collaboration with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU). This fellowship is designed to provide current Rutgers graduate students specialized, hands-on experience within the clean energy sector.

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Rutgers Climate Symposium Highlights

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RCEI Symposium 2025: The Blue Planet

On November 12, 2025, researchers, faculty, and student scholars from academic and research institutions across the Mid-Atlantic gathered for Rutgers' annual Climate Symposium, designed to foster collaboration among the climate change and energy research communities in our region. The 2025 theme, The Blue Planet, invited consideration of the role of the oceans in Earth's climate and the tightly connected ramifications of the climate crisis for the oceans.

Full event archive including recordings and abstracts available here.

Affiliate Research Highlight

New Forecasting Model Could Help Unlock the Power of Large Offshore Wind Turbines

Publication by Ahmed Aziz Ezzat, RCEI Affiliate

As offshore wind continues to develop as a sustainable industry of the future, larger and taller turbines require better methods of energy output prediction. Enter DeepMIDE, a model introduced by Ahmed Aziz Ezzat in a new co-authored study that has already improved 5% of predictions and 4-7% of wind forecasts. Given that wind speed differs at different turbine blade heights, this model will be more important than ever in improving the efficiency of this prevalent renewable energy source.

Now, more than ever, we need you.

Our work has never mattered more. We all understand the stakes. The Earth continues to warm, and human and ecological communities suffer from the impacts of a changing climate. The creativity, passion, and stubborn resolve RCEI affiliates and their students have for their climate change and renewable energy scholarship persevere.

Your contributions will support graduate students and early career scholars, research programs that develop real-world solutions, and building connections between the arts and sciences.

Support RCEI Today

Applications Close March 27

RCEI Clean Energy Fellowship Program

Application Window: February 9 - March 27

The RCEI Clean Energy Fellowship Program is a prestigious, paid opportunity offered in collaboration with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU). This fellowship is designed to provide current Rutgers graduate students specialized, hands-on experience within the clean energy sector.

Learn More & Apply

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Climate, Energy and AI Convergence Café

April 8rd, 2026

10:00am – 2:00pm
Cook Student Center, Multipurpose Room

This Convergence Café looks to bring together RCEI affiliate scholars and other full-time Rutgers faculty and staff to mobilize interdisciplinary teams focused on the intersection of sustainability governance and the RCEI Focus Areas.

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Rutgers Climate Symposium Highlights

RCEI Symposium 2025: The Blue Planet

Full event archive including recordings and abstracts available here.

Affiliate Research Highlight

New Forecasting Model Could Help Unlock the Power of Large Offshore Wind Turbines

Publication by Ahmed Aziz Ezzat, RCEI Affiliate

In a world where solar power is becoming increasingly relevant and new solar panels are being manufactured in all sorts of configurations, a study co-authored by Dunbar Birnie investigates how the thickness of a special panel coating helps them catch sunlight – and discovers a perfect medium of thickness within which, no matter what type of panel, they all work best. This finding introduces potential for greater standardization in the solar industry, which could elevate its influence even further in industries around the globe.

Now, more than ever, we need you.

Our work has never mattered more. We all understand the stakes. The Earth continues to warm, and human and ecological communities suffer from the impacts of a changing climate. The creativity, passion, and stubborn resolve RCEI affiliates and their students have for their climate change and renewable energy scholarship persevere.

Your contributions will support graduate students and early career scholars, research programs that develop real-world solutions, and building connections between the arts and sciences.

Now, more than ever, we need you.

Support RCEI Today