Scott Barnett, a professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Northwestern University, will give a talk titled "High-Efficiency Energy Storage Using Reversible Solid Oxide Cells" for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Inheritance Baltimore: Humanities and Arts Education for Black Liberation (IB) is a grant-funded program at Johns Hopkins University, support by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through its Just Futures grant initiative. IB is a joint programming and research effort to preserve Black archival resources, curate Black arts and public heritage, and expand local infrastructure for freedom…
The Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) is tentatively planning to host its next annual summit for sustainable energy research at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) on January 15, 2025. Please check this page in the future for more updates about event. And feel free to click here and here to read about the previous two…
A web dashboard to visualize emissions from business travel is being developed as a Campus as a Living Lab research project to support the goals of Johns Hopkins' Climate Action and Sustainability Plan. You are invited to join a human-centered-design workshop where faculty and staff participants will chart a course for the dashboard to achieve positive change at the…
Climate change is already shaping the lives of young people around the globe. How should education respond to climate change as a lived reality rather than a possible future? This talk outlines the practical, moral, and pedagogical reasons why it makes sense to focus on adaptation, resilience, and transformation (ART). It clarifies the challenges posed…
What remains possible when so much seems to be coming apart at the seams? What does it mean to live in the shadow of the ruined promises of the past? Consider the many despoiled landscapes of the Chesapeake Bay and our Jones Falls and Patapsco watersheds: junk heaps, rotting piers, spoil basins, and the many…
From the delicious to the deadly, fungi—which share 50% of our DNA—present a wide range of benefits, and threats, to human health, many of which remain unexplored. Could fungal pathogens outsmart us before we find ways to combat them? Dr. Arturo Casadevall takes up this question and discusses his latest book, What If Fungi Win?, in conversation…
