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A group of Harvard SEAS students and professors standing on steps in the Science and Engineering Complex

A sustainable future for data centers

May 23, 2024

SEAS students tackle the engineering implications of the ever-increasing need for data centers

A green energy facility featuring solar panels, wind turbines, and a building with a prominent recycling symbol on the roof. The facility is surrounded by water and greenery.

Sustainable computing project awarded $12 million from NSF

May 23, 2024

Multi-institution research initiative aims to reduce computing’s carbon footprint by 45% within the next decade

Photo gallery: Scenes from the SEAS Sustainability Fair

December 13, 2022

Sustainability

Harvard’s Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) is one of the healthiest and most energy-efficient laboratory buildings in the world. It was certified by two international sustainable building programs: the International Living Future Institute (Living Building Challenge Materials, Beauty, and Equit...

Investing in a sustainable future

July 16, 2020

Climate Change Solutions Fund grants bet on new ideas for the next generation

Office of Facilities - Allston SEC Sustainability Information

Artist's rendering of Mars 4 billion years ago with oceans on its surface.

Explaining persistent hydrogen in Mars’ atmosphere

January 27, 2025

New insight into Red Planet’s hot again, cold again history

Harnessing scalability, adaptability, and efficiency of biological neural networks through flexible brain-computer interfaces

November 18, 2024

Liu and team receive NSF EFRI grant for biocomputing research

Evoking sustainability, striking photo wins top honors

February 19, 2010

Sung Hoon Kang and colleagues place first in the 2009 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

Physical and Economical Operations of Sustainable Energy Systems

ENG-SCI 215
2025 Fall

Le Xie
Tuesday, Thursday
11:15am to 12:30pm

This course introduces graduate students to operational issues in sustainable electric energy systems. The first part covers basic electrical engineering, optimization, and economic concepts. The second part examines the “modular” view of energy processing components (e.g., generators, transmission ...

Roy G. Gordon

Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science, Emeritus

12 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138 Converse Laboratory Room 110

gordon@chemistry.harvard.edu

(617) 495-4017

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Gage Hills

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

150 Western Ave, Sci&Eng 5.415

ghills@seas.harvard.edu

(617) 495-1110

Zachary Schiffer

Assistant Professor of Applied Physics

zschiffer@seas.harvard.edu

Le Xie

Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering

150 Western Ave, Sci&Eng SEC 5.418

xie@seas.harvard.edu

(617) 496-1888

Environmental and Industrial Chemistry for Energy, Climate, and Sustainability

ESE 164
2025 Fall

Scot Martin
Monday, Wednesday
12:00pm to 1:15pm

Part 1: Intersection of environment/industry, including decarbonization of the materials industry. Chemistries for cement and steel production without carbon dioxide emission, the smelting industry for extraction of metals from ores, present-day and possible futures for chemistry of a hydrogen econo...

Physical Electrochemistry and its Applications to Sustainable Engineering

APPHY 236
2025 Fall

Zachary Schiffer
Monday, Wednesday
10:30am to 11:45am

This course introduces electrochemical systems through the lens of thermodynamics, kinetics, and transport. We begin by asking what fundamental role an electron plays in a chemical reaction, then we move to methods to treat electrons through traditional chemical kinetic theories, and last, we discus...