ERG PhD Jess Carney has recently been awarded by the Berkeley Graduate Division an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Award for her work in Dan Kammen’s Energy & Society. Carney not only acted as Head GSI, but she also worked with Kammen to develop and improve the course. She also took charge of steering the summer Energy & Society online course, which presented its own unique challenges.

ERG professor Dan Kammen and ERG PhD student Valeri Vasquez have recently spoken alongside a live panel of UC Berkeley experts in the live broadcast “Climate Change and COVID-19: Can this crisis shift the paradigm?”.

ERG professor Dan Kamen along with eight other UC Berkeley faculty members has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), “a 240-year-old organization honoring the country’s most accomplished artists, scholars, scientists and leaders.”

ERG Professor Dan Kammen has recently been featured on various news media sources, including The Guardian, KQED, San Francisco Chroncicle and more to discuss how Covid-19 has emphasized the need to fight climate change.

In the current pandemic of Covid-19, ERG professor Isha Ray points out how the public health directive to “wash your hands” is a challenge for people lacking access to clean water. In her article on Matrix, she describes the need to increase water and sanitation investments to prevent further spread of disease and to simply increase the standard of living for all families.

ERG professor Dan Kammen was recently featured in a CNN interview discussing the effects of COVID-19 on pollution levels around the world.

ERG students Jenny Rempel and Kelsey Alford-Jones have recently been named NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award winners for 2020. NSF awards and recognizes “outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines” who are “pursuing research-based Master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions”.

ERG Professor Dan Kammen was recently featured on Global Minima, a podcast by Sustainabilist, in an episode titled “Dan Kammen on Energy, Data, and Canned Air (GM101)”.

Anushah Hossain, a Ph.D. student in the Energy & Resource Group, has recently been awarded two different fellowships. Hossain was awarded the Peter Lyman Graduate Fellowship for “her dissertation on a multi-lingual internet”, as well as the Subir Chowdhury Fellowship on Quality of Life in Bangladesh to “support her research on open access software communities in South Asia”.

ERG PhD student Will Gorman recently published an article titled “Hybrid Power Plants Are Growing Rapidly, But Are They a Good Idea?” on Green Tech Media. He discusses how though hybrid power plants can have several benefits, there are many limitations and drawbacks to using such technology.