Energy Sustainability in a Changing World - Ellen D. Williams

Date: Monday, February 27th, 2012

Start: 8:00 pm

Location: Great Hall, ISU Memorial Union, Ames, Iowa

Contact: ISU Lectures Program, lectures@iastate.edu, (515) 294-9934

Ellen Williams serves as Chief Scientist at British/Beyond Petroleum. BP is the third largest oil company and the fifth largest corporation on the planet, and as BP's Chief Scientist, Ellen plays a role in determining how developments in science andtechnology can contribute to sustainable, secure and environmentally responsible energy. She will discuss specific examples of carbon capture and storage, as well as biofuels. 

She is on leave from the University of Maryland where she is Distinguished University Professor of Physics and director of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. This is part of the Women in STEM Speaker Series and the Live Green! Sustainability Series.

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