Hello all,
Just in case you didnt already hear about this historic announcement
last week....
Go Energy Secretary Steven Chu!
-Dan
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April 27, 2009 speech from President Obama to a "A HISTORIC COMMITMENT TO RESEARCH
AND EDUCATION."
INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION OF CLEAN ENERGY INNOVATORS
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Fact-Sheet-A-Historic-Commitment-To-Research-And-Education/
The President will announce a joint initiative by the Department of Energy and the National
Science Foundation that will inspire tens of thousands of American students to pursue
careers in science, engineering, and entrepreneurship related to clean energy.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Sputnik and the space race inspired young people to pursue careers
in science and engineering. The average age of NASA’s Mission Control during the Apollo 17
Mission, for example, was 26. President Obama believes that we have a similar opportunity
to inspire today’s young people to tackle the single most important challenge of their
generation – the need to develop cheap, abundant, clean energy and accelerate the transition
to a low carbon economy.
The President’s initiative will empower young men and women to invent and commercialize
advanced energy technologies such as efficient and cost effective methods for converting
sunlight to electricity and fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, stationary and portable
advanced batteries for plug-in electric cars, advanced energy storage concepts that will
enable sustained energy supply from solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, high-
efficiency deployment of power across "smart grids," and carbon neutral commercial and
residential buildings.
The initiative – known as RE-ENERGYSE (REgaining our ENERGY Science and Engineering
Edge), will be jointly funded by the Department of Energy and the National Science
Foundation. RE-ENERGYSE will support, for example:
- An education and outreach campaign that uses movies, radio, cyber-learning,
television, classroom curriculum, social networks, and local science museums to capture the
imagination of young people, and teach them about the role that science and technology can
play in addressing our energy challenge
- Energy research opportunities for undergraduates
- Educational opportunities for women and underrepresented minorities who seek
careers in the clean energy sector
- Partnerships between industry and two-year and four-year colleges to strengthen
education for technicians in the clean energy sector, focusing on curriculum development,
teacher training, and career pathways from high schools to community colleges
- Interdisciplinary energy graduate programs at the master’s and Ph.D. level that
integrate science, engineering, entrepreneurship, and public policy
- Individual fellowships to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers involved in
the frontiers of clean energy research
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Daniel Roth
Sustainability Coordinator
Office of Environmental Compliance and Sustainability
Cornell University
www.sustainablecampus.cornell.edu
Youth Action Team Co-Chair
US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
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