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Environmental Science & Engineering - Centers & Initiatives

Affiliated ProgramsEnvironmental Humanities and Social Sciences InitiativeThis initiative aims to understand how humanistic interpretations of climate change have altered, or how they might further alter, attitudes and behaviors within China.

Sustainability and the Fashion Industry: what does it mean to be in charge of Impact?

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. 

Juliet Russell

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Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) Piper Auditorium

Sang Cheol Kim: Electrolytes and Electrochemical Devices for Energy and Sustainability

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.

Sang Cheol Kim

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Cruft 309

Special MRSEC Seminar: Design and Synthesis of Nanomaterials and Nanosystems for Biomedical and Sustainability Applications

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.

Dr. Jackie Y. Ying

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Pierce Hall 209

Are Electric Vehicles Driving Sustainability? Unpacking the Environmental Trade-Off of the EV Revolution

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.

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Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) LL2.224

PAI Seminar: Learning Decision-Focused Uncertainty Representations: Theory & Applications in Sustainability

Machine learning can significantly improve performance for decision-making under uncertainty
in a wide range of domains. However, ensuring robustness guarantees and satisfaction of risk
constraints requires well-calibrated uncertainty estimates, yet there may be many valid
uncertainty estimates, each with their own performance profile—i.e., not all uncertainty is
equally valuable for downstream decision-making. To address this problem, we developed an
end-to-end framework to learn uncertainty representations for stochastic, robust, and

Christopher Yeh

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Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) SEC 4.405

Active Learning Labs - UTEC - Harvard Collaborative Field Program in Peru

Dates: January 6 -  January 17, 2025 Students from Harvard and Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC) will spend 2 weeks in Iquitos and Lima, Peru working on a sustainable development problem considering various design solutions to a challenge facing an indigenous Am...

Coral Reefs and Super Black Animals: Lessons in Sustainability from Nature’s Photonic Experts

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.

Dakota McCoy (Stanford University)

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Pierce Hall 209