Past Events Category: CECI Seminar Series

Sara Rummel, Program Director for the Great Lakes Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center (TCTAC)
Memorial Union, TITU
April 18, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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NETWORKING SESSION TO FOLLOW PRESENTATION. The need for community-led strategies in the clean energy transition has never been more clear, especially for the underserved communities that are facing the greatest impacts of climate change. In this introduction to the Great Lakes Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center (TCTAC), we'll learn about how the TCTAC can help disadvantaged and overburdened, rural, and remote communities navigate federal funding opportunities to resource their vision, leadership and work for climate resiliency. 

Dr. Stephanie Diem, Experimental plasma physicist, fusion energy researcher, and science communicator
Union South, TITU (Virtual Option Available)
March 14, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Networking session to follow presentation. Fusion has the potential to be adapted globally as the energy source for the next phase of human technology. Much of the work in the fusion community to date has been focused on achieving energy gain, but to have fusion be widely adopted as an energy source, the focus must also include improving the economics of fusion energy systems as well as society's consent of these fusion technologies. An interdisciplinary team has been established focused on reimagining fusion energy system design to embed equity and environmental justice and engage the public during the early phases of the design process. Community informed research directions are being identified through open-framed focus groups to understand societal hopes for and concerns about fusion technologies. Initial work has focused on redefining systems level analysis, risk and safety analysis and to explore lifecycle analysis for fusion centering equity and environmental justice.