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GCSC Seminar – David Pellow – Toward a Critical Environmental Justice: Exploring State Violence and the Settler Colonial Conflicts

210 ASB (Aline Skaggs Biology bldg) 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, UT, United States

David Pellow is the Dehlsen Chair of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he teaches courses on environmental and social justice, race/class/gender and environmental conflict, human-animal conflicts, sustainability, and social change movements that confront our socioenvironmental crises and social inequality. 4:00 pm  |  […]

Society, Water & Climate research lunch talks

Gardner Commons 2950 (Eccles Auditorium) 260 SOUTH Central Campus Dr., Salt Lake City, UT

Recipients of GCSC/SWC seed grant funding will discuss their research projects. Paula Williams, Associate Professor, Psychology:  "Individual Differences in Environmental Attitudes and Behavior: Personality and Neurocognitive Mechanisms" Bill Anderegg, Assistant Professor, Biology : "Crossing scales and Disciplines to Examine the Effects of Climate Change on Western Forests" Lunch provided with RSVP to austin.westley@csbs.utah.edu with subject […]

GCSC Fall Retreat

Alta Lodge 10230 UT-210, Alta, UT

This terrific event is an all-day orientation for new and continuing graduate students and postdocs working with GCSC affiliate faculty who are interested in learning more about opportunities for interdisciplinary research and training at the University of Utah.  

GCSC Seminar: Barbara Reck, Why Using Metals Efficiently Matters

210 ASB (Aline Skaggs Biology bldg) 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Barbara Reck is a Senior Research Scientist at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. This presentation discusses the challenges of metal recycling in the context of broader material cycles and the role of interdependencies among metals– from byproducts in ores, to alloying elements and complex multi-material products. 4:00 pm | 210 ASB

GCSC Seminar: Masood Parvania, Sustainability at the Intersection of Power & Water Systems

210 ASB (Aline Skaggs Biology bldg) 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Masood Parvania, Assistant Professor, University of Utah Electrical and Computer Engineering, is Director of Utah Smart Energy Laboratory (U-Smart). Seminar 4:00 pm | 210 ASB This talk will provide an engineering perspective on how closer collaboration and operation co-optimization of interdependent power and water infrastructure enhances the energy and economic efficiency of both systems.