W&J Energy Series plugs in Sept. 20
Energy Efficiency is the theme of Washington & Jefferson College’s fifth annual Energy Lecture Series.
“Unlocking Energy Efficiency: Fueling Our Future With Today’s Lost Energy” will be the subject of the initial session, which will begin at 7 p.m. Sept. 20 in Yost Auditorium in W&J’s Burnett Center. Admission will be free.
Two Pittsburgh professors, Michael Blackhurst of the University of Pittsburgh and Neil Donahue of Carnegie Mellon University, will be the speakers.
W&J’s Center for Energy Policy and Management runs the series, which began in the fall of 2012. Diana Stares was director of the center from 2011 until this past April, when she went back to being a lawyer with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Corey Young, a 2011 W&J grad who worked with her for three years, succeeded her and has been organizing the lecture series for the 2016-17 school year.
There will be four sessions, with the second scheduled for 7 p.m. Oct. 25. The third and fourth will be in the spring semester, dates and speakers to be determined.
W&J presents the series in partnership with the Science & Engineering Ambassadors, a Pittsburgh-based program of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences.