Part of Illinois Institute of Technology’s Wanger Institute for Sustainability Energy Research (WISER) 2018 Distinguished Lectureship Series.

For most of our existence, humans have been sustained by solar energy harnessed on the same timescale as its use. Only in the last two centuries have we become dependent on fossil resources. Continue reading “Challenges and Opportunities in an Emerging Solar Economy”

Huge downpours, massive flooding, heat waves, prolonged droughts—these extreme events are occurring more frequently, and with greater intensity. “100-year-floods” are occurring every year or two; should we consider these weather events the new ‘normal’? How are cities and regions responding and planning under such uncertainties? Continue reading “Extreme Storms”

The Leakey Foundation, Chicago Council on Science and Technology and Chicago Public Library present:

The Origins of the Genus Homo.

When did our ancestors look the way we expect the earliest members of our genus to have looked? Continue reading “The Origins of Genus Homo”

Together, we’ve spent a decade enhancing the public’s understanding and appreciation of science and technology and their impact on society. Continue reading “Science is for Everyone”