News·May 20, 2025

Team Pasture Powered Wins 2025 Climate Case Competition

College students Charles White, Eric Fang, Iris Badezet-Delory, Jesenia Parthasarathy, and Jackson Slater won first place for their proposal enabling solar developers to partner with local dairy farmers by grazing young heifers beneath solar panels.
News·May 20, 2025

Team Sustainable Freaks Wins Second Place in 2025 Climate Case Competition

College students Tae Kyeong Hong, David Edwards, Juliet Katz, Ralph Lam and Vickey Zhou won second place for their proposal to install solar panels in California vineyards.
News·May 20, 2025

Team Super Sisters Solutions Wins Third Place in 2025 Climate Case Competition

College students Vera Chaudhry, Anna Bonnem, Chelsea Wilp, Jonah Lovejoy and Lillian Gilbert-Smith won third place for their proposal integrating solar power into soybean acreage.
EPIC News·May 14, 2025

EPIC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Sariya Stowers was selected for the prestigious fellowship.
CSEI News·May 13, 2025

SRM360 Launches to Bring Clarity and Context to Sunlight Reflection Methods

SRM360, a new nonprofit initiative co-founded by CSEi Professor Peter Irvine, officially launches to bring clarity and context to the complex world of sunlight reflection methods (SRM).
CSEI News·May 12, 2025

CSEi Receives $5 Million Grant from Quadrature Climate Foundation to Advance SRM Research

The three-year grant aims to reduce uncertainties surrounding the scientific, engineering, and economic practicalities of sulfate aerosol-based SRM.
ETI News·May 6, 2025

A Big Data approach for battery electrolytes

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A new paper outlines a path for AI and machine learning to help build tomorrow’s batteries
EPIC News·Apr 29, 2025

EPIC Air Quality Fund Hires Leader in Monitoring and Evaluation

Mary Tran has joined the EPIC Air Quality Fund as its first Monitoring & Evaluation Senior Specialist.
EPIC News·Apr 21, 2025

EPIC Awards Two Projects to Improve Air Quality Monitoring and Data Access

These awardees complete the final cohort of 26 projects to receive awards during this round of funding to enhance air quality infrastructure and drive national-level impact on air pollution across 16 countries.
ETI News·Apr 16, 2025

Thermodynamics-defying materials could revolutionize EVs, buildings and more

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In Nature, a UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering-led team finds materials that shrink when heated, expand when crushed – and represent a revolution in fundamental science.