In this spring 2024 series, we present faculty research talks relating to various sustainability topics touching upon aspects of travel, transportation and the energy transition. The first event in this series will focus on aspects of aviation, travel, and tourism….
The Degrowth Cofee Hour events begin again for the Spring 2024 semester on Wednesday January 17th from 1:00-2:15 PM in POTR 234. This event will occur every third Wednesday of the month. The book being discussed is The Future is Degrowth, an…
The January UC HFAR webinar will feature Dr. Matt Huber (EAPS) who will discuss the limits of human heat tolerance and its impact on the agricultural labor supply. While rising temperatures are a growing concern for many, the unique challenges…
Turbulent dynamical systems, such as those governing weather and climate, are characterized by both a high-dimensional phase space and a large number of instabilities, which are ubiquitous among many complex systems in science and engineering, including climate, material, and neural…
For this virtual webinar co-sponsored by the White River Alliance, Purdue University's Institute for a Sustainable Future and Indiana Water Resources Research Center, water experts from Purdue and USGS provided data about the 2023 water year in Indiana and discuss…
This semester-long reading group will provide a range of perspectives on how different disciplines view and talk about risk and resilience. Each week, a different person will lead a discussion of 1-2 papers they view as either seminal works in…
As a thank you to all our graduate students, we are hosting an end of semester student lunch! We appreciate your participation in ISF and are committed to supporting graduate students. We would like to expand this support by facilitating graduate student-led…
This semester-long reading group will provide a range of perspectives on how different disciplines view and talk about risk and resilience. Each week, a different person will lead a discussion of 1-2 papers they view as either seminal works in…
ISF and the College of Engineering are co-sponsoring a lecture with Julian Allwood, Professor of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Cambridge. This will be a virtual event. The title of his talk is “Making (good) things happen”. …
Join the Great Lakes Science Initiative for an update on the status of current and future of the Initiative efforts. Lunch will be provided. Graduate students and post-docs are welcome to attend.