Carleton College To Host Worldwide Recognized Expert on Renewable Energy

Cambria;mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria">Nathan S. Lewis, the George L. Argyros Chair in Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology and recently named 17th on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of “100 Agents of Change,” will deliver a lecture entitled Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> “Powering the Planet” on Thursday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Carleton College’s Olin Hall room 149.

The presentation will describe and evaluate the challenges––technical, political, and economic––involved with widespread adoption of renewable energy technologies. The event is free and open to the public.

Lewis holds a joint appointment as a principal investigator in the Beckman Institute Molecular Material Recourse Center.  He has received numerous awards for his work in photoelectochemistry, has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator.  Currently, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal, normal">Energy and Environmental Science. He has published more than 300 papers and has supervised approximately 60 graduate students and postdoctoral associates.

Over the last decade Lewis has been an outspoken advocate for change in regard to the United State and global energy policy and the need to reduce carbon emissions worldwide.  He has served as an advisor on climate change and renewable energy to President Barack Obama (when he was a U.S. Senator), former U.S. Senator Hilary Clinton, California U.S. Senators Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, and he has briefed former President Bill Clinton and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on climate change issues and renewable energy alternatives.  Lewis is often sought out as a keynote speaker for conferences, initiatives, and workshops on global energy perspectives and has been interviewed by PBS, NPR, CNN, Business Week, and the New York Times.

An abstract, and more information about the talk, can be found on the chemistry department website at http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/chem/events/.

For more information, including disability accommodations, contact Joe Chihade at (507) 222-7446.