Search Results

More details coming soon!

Disruptive technologies have made access to data easier, cheaper, and faster than ever before. This has enabled policymakers and city leaders to better plan and deliver services, enhance municipal revenues, and strengthen their city resilience.

Polymers and water are the major components that constitute most living species on the earth, ranging from animals, plants, and fungi to bacteria. Polymers are also pervasive and indispensable in almost every aspect of our daily life, ranging from food, clothing, housing, and healthcare to transportation, communication, and entertainment. Furthermore, over 6% of global electricity generated from coal is used to make plastics, and microplastics are already ubiquitous in global biosphere.

Please join us before the talk at 2pm outside of LL2.224 for refreshments

Title:  Building a Sustainable Data Foundation for AI

Speaker: Yizhong Wang, PhD candidate at the University of Washington

Addressing the very sustainability of the earth system, global climate, and our energy use has now become a leading area of scientific research.  The sciences of light-matter interactions and electrochemistry are yielding advances that are opening paths for conceptually new sustainable energy technologies that have not previously been achievable.  I will discuss three such “grand challenge” examples.

In-person and Zoom option availabe. Zoom registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrcOqprjgjGNUsvm9RsbfRnHx7WWHyFG-r

In this virtual lecture, Jane P. Chang, 2023–2024 Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow, will explore the interdisciplinary intersection of microelectronics materials processing and physical chemistry, leveraging the studies and understanding of surface reaction controlled chemical selectivity in atomic layer etching to de-poison the catalysts, thereby realizing sustainability in chemical processing

Join the Wyss Institute and our partner, the Collaborative Fund, in this online event, in which we bring together industry leaders and key opinion leaders in important application areas with scientists and innovators in our community to promote a better understanding of the sustainable solutions landscape.

Clay minerals are among the most abundant and sustainable on earth, and due to this and their low-cost they are found in many traditional applications that exploit their physical and chemical properties, including their mechanical stability, their non-toxicity and in effect their underlying 2D nanoscale character.

March 27 |  Zoom Panel 10:30 am - 11:30 am  & Lunch 12:00 pm - 1 pm | SEC West Atrium | Open to all SEAS | Register here

Join us for this MDE Talk to hear from Juliet Russell, Head of Sustainability at Stella McCartney.

With experience working across a variety of industries in Impact and Sustainability and spending time at brands including Stella McCartney and PANGAIA, Juliet explores what it means to work in this space within the fashion industry, whilst bringing an academic perspective to what is often of creative & business dominance. 

The clean energy transition is imperative for mitigating climate change and ensuring a sustainable future. Electrochemical technologies such as batteries, powered by abundant and cheap renewable electricity, will play an important role in the energy transition. The electrolyte is an indispensable component of any electrochemical system, impacting the electrochemical stability, reaction kinetics and transport properties.

Nanostructured materials can be designed with sophisticated features to fulfill the complex requirements of advanced material applications. Our laboratory has developed organic and inorganic nanoparticles and nanocomposites for advanced drug delivery, antimicrobial, stem cell culture, and tissue engineering applications. In addition, we have nanofabricated microfluidic systems for drug screening, in vitro toxicology, and diagnostic applications.

A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar with Haiyang Lin, Harvard-China Project Postdoctoral Fellow

The 2025 Dean’s Dialogue Panel will explore the sustainability of electric vehicles (EVs) by discussing their environmental costs and benefits. Across the world, policymakers and car manufacturers are championing EVs as a critical solution to reducing oil consumption and combating climate change. But are EVs truly as eco-friendly as they claim to be? This panel will delve into the complex realities of EV sustainability, examining the environmental impacts of electricity production, the extraction of raw materials, and the recyclability of EV components.

Solar energy shapes climate and life on a planetary scale. Coral reefs, essential ecosystems, depend on photosynthetic symbioses between animals and algae. However, climate change has devastated reefs worldwide. I unite materials science, computational analysis, and environmental science to research coral reef resilience and inspire new sustainable technologies based on nature’s materials.

Friday, February 7
11am - 12pm
SEC LL2.221


"Energy-Efficient and Environmentally Sustainable Computing Systems Leveraging Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits"


Gage Hills, Harvard University

Abstract: 

Power electronics is a core technology for future energy systems including data centers, transportation electrification, and distributed energy resources. The performance and functionality of power electronics in these systems critically impact the sustainable development of human society.

Sustainability and technical functionalism are often at odds with each other within the realm of material science. Textiles sit at this crossroads in a very particular way- as a product of mass produced-mass consumption across the globe while maintaining a deeply technological basis in their development and processes- spanning the historic infrastructure of computation (the Jacquard Loom) to the contemporary challenges of the most scientifically advanced systems of biology and nanotechnology.