Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.52
Liaison Geory Kurtzhals
Submission Date Oct. 15, 2014
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University of Notre Dame
ER-T2-8: Themed Semester or Year

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Geory Kurtzhals
Sr. Director
Office of Sustainability
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Has the institution chosen a sustainability-related theme for its themed semester, year, or first-year experience during the past three years?:
Yes

A brief description of the themed semester, year, or first-year experience:

The Sustainable Energy Initiative (SEI) through the Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame (cSEND) conducted a series energy related seminars for the greater Notre Dame community. Recent topics are/were as follows:
- Energy Seminar: Nanostructured Functional Materials by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
- Energy Seminar: The Materials Science Center at NREL: Multiscale Materials Design for the Nation’s Clean Energy Future
- 8:00 p.m., Stinson-Remick Atrium: Undergraduate Energy Research Expo
Purpose: To match undergraduate students interested in energy related research with faculty who have openings.
- 7:00 p.m., 129 DeBartolo Hall: "Energy for You, Me, and 7 Billion Other People" (Randy Ellingson, The University of Toledo)
- Time, Location: "Nanowires Photonics & Single Cell Endoscopy" (Piedong Yang, University of California-Berkeley)
- Time, Location: "Artificial Photosynthesis: Challenges & Opportunities" (Piedong Yang, University of California-Berkeley)
- 5:00 p.m., 141 DeBartolo Hall: "The Future of Fuels and Alternative Feedstocks – Recognizing Hype vs. Practical Limitations" (William Banholzer, The Dow Chemical Company)
- 3:30 p.m., 141 DeBartolo Hall: "The Challenge of Taking a New Idea into a Commercial Business" (William Banholzer, The Dow Chemical Company)
- 7:00 p.m., TBD: "Title TBD" (Wes Jackson, founder of The Land Institute in Kansas)


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