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News

ERG PhD awarded as Ashoka Fellow

April 21, 2014
Awards, Fermin Reygadas, Mexico, PhD, Water

Fermin Reygadas receives top international award for social entrepreneurs.

Six ERG students awarded NSF, plus Fulbright & Ashoka

April 3, 2014
Awards, fellowships, NSF, students

ERG students have recently been awarded NSF, Fulbright and Ashoka Fellowships. See the full list of fellowships awarded to current students.

Microgrid Report by ERG scholars in Nature

March 30, 2014
Energy, Microgrids, Nature, Report, United Nations

Scholars from ERG and Carnegie Mellon report on the “vicious cycles” of rural microgrids.

Holdren Sets New Course for US Energy

March 20, 2014
Energy, ERG Faculty, John Holdren, Obama, Policy
Holdren by National Academy of Sciences

President Obama’s top science advisor and ERG Co-founder, John Holdren, is confident that America’s next energy plan “will make a difference.”

Brandt (PhD’08) publishes in Science on Methane Leaks

February 14, 2014
Alumni, Energy, Fracking, Methane, PhD, Science

“People who go out and actually measure methane pretty consistently find more emissions than we expect,” claims Adam Brandt, ERG Alum and assistant professor at Stanford.

ERG Alum Greacen’s book on small power

January 18, 2014

From the bottom up : how small power producers and mini-grids can deliver electrification and renewable energy in Africa

Suburban sprawl, 50% of U.S. household carbon footprint

January 8, 2014

Chris Jones (ERG PhD) and Prof. Dan Kammen point out that U.S. households are responsible for about 20% of annual worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, which are driving climate change.

ERG chair named top architecture educator

December 17, 2013
Architecture, Award, Chair, Efficiency, Energy, Faculty, Harrison Fraker, Topaz Medallion

Har­ri­son Fraker receives 2014 Topaz Medal­lion for Excel­lence in Archi­tec­tural Edu­ca­tion.

ERG student wins news reporting prize

December 10, 2013
Awards, Journalism, Mongabay, News, Tanya Dimitrova

Tanya Dimitrova (MS) wins top contributor prize of 2013 on Mongabay.com.

Clean energy future: Kammen and Wolfram talk it out on NPR

November 30, 2013
Daniel Kammen, Energy, Media, News, NPR, Radio
solar by Chandra Marsono

ERG’s Kammen and Haas’ Wolfram don’t exactly see eye-to-eye on energy in NPR interview.

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