“I don't personally like complaining about things if you're not going to do something about them,” says Andrea Miramontes Serrano ’24.  ..read more

Dan Miller ‘78 is managing director of The Roda Group, a Berkeley, CA based clean tech venture capital group he co-founded with fellow Cornellian Roger Strauch ‘78. Roda’s portfolio includes carbon capture company Svante, energy storage company Gridtential, and water technology company Axine. Dan received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Cornell and his M.S. from Stanford, and he’s served on the Cornell ECE Advisory Council since 1995. Dan is a leading advocate for the need to take urgent action to address climate change including putting a price on carbon.  ..read more

LPS researchers are not working at a scale that would produce fusion energy here below populated classrooms, labs and offices in Grumman Hall, though hearing the COBRA fire might make it seem like they are. Similar experiments are conducted at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at a much greater scale using proper fusion fuel. The work in LPS is aimed at developing diagnostic tools and testing processes that can later be scaled up at the national labs ..read more

As global warming increases and countries seek to lower carbon emissions, finding ways to access sustainable energy is paramount. Associate Professor Khurram Afridi and graduate students Maida Farooq and Firehiwot Gurara, are at the forefront of this quest to create methods and technologies that will harness the energy we need through environmentally positive innovations ..read more