What will our energy future look like? How can we ensure a reliable and affordable supply of energy for homes and businesses for generations to come? Can we do so without running out of fuel or generating pollution, and with consideration for climate change? For Robert Mieth, an RCEI Affiliate and Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department …
Cristina Marte has always known that movement holds power, and she has spent her life sharing that power with others. As a dancer, educator, curriculum designer, and advocate, she has built a career around the belief that dance is not only performative, but also emotional, educational, and transformative. She has been able to make these connections with environmental issues, including climate change. This belief in the power of movement deeply informs her approach to education …
Over 4.5 billion years ago, Earth formed through elemental and celestial processes whose chemical and isotopic signatures remain preserved in Earth and space rocks. Some of these ancient materials originate from nearby planetary bodies and fall to Earth as meteorites. For Dr. Katherine Bermingham, Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, studying these fragments of space began with curiosity …
Once a chemical engineer, forever an artist. Atif Akin calls himself a “problem-maker” rather than a problem solver. He enjoys posing skeptical questions and ruffling feathers, and he does not worry much about answering the questions he puts forward. As an artist and designer, born and raised in Türkiye, Akin’s gateway into visual arts and design was through his background in chemical engineering …
RCEI Affiliate Focus on Dunbar Birnie, Professor & Corning/Saint Gobain/Malcom G. McLaren Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering By Aleen Mirza Curiosity may have killed the cat, but for RCEI Affiliate Dunbar Birnie, it sparked a decades-long passion for solar energy and innovation. From collecting geodes and shiny rocks as a child to creating one of Rutgers’ first courses …
RCEI Affiliate Focus on Danielle Falzon, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology By Aleen Mirza Who decides the future of a warming planet? More importantly, who is excluded from those critical discussions? As climate change is an increasingly undeniable reality, these questions expose an uncomfortable truth, as explained by RCEI affiliate Danielle Falzon, Assistant Professor of Sociology. The truth is that …
By Aleen Mirza A study by a team of researchers from Stanford University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Rutgers, including Rutgers professor and RCEI Affiliate Kay Bidle, has uncovered new insights regarding the properties of “marine snow” (aggregated marine organic matter) that rapidly descends from surface waters into the deep ocean and is a critical component of carbon sequestration. In …
By Aleen Mirza Kevon Rhiney is captivated by how globalization and climate change disproportionately impact smallholder farmers in the Caribbean. As a human-environment geographer passionate about climate justice, Rhiney’s research examines the development and justice implications of global environmental change, with a particular focus on this region. The Caribbean, one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable areas, is predicted to face …
