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Renewable Energy and Sustainable Communities

Solar Pannels at sunset.

Research Topics

Cleaner energy production, storage, distribution, and utilization; next-generation materials and technology; environmental justice, policy, and economics; computational techniques to optimize existing technologies; sustainable urban development, adoption of scalable traditional practices for modern cities 

Focus Area Co-Leaders

Andrew Crooks.

Andrew Crooks, PhD

Professor
Geography
College of Arts and Sciences

Miao Yu.

Miao Yu, PhD

Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Empire Innovation Professor
RENEW Institute

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