Sustainability Working Groups
The Rice Sustainability Institute supports interdisciplinary working groups tackling critical sustainability challenges. These faculty-led groups focus on topics ranging from climate resilience to sustainable materials and infrastructure.
🪴 Agricultural Risk and Resilience:
Sylvia Dee, Mark Torres, Noemi Vergopolan, Frederi Viens
🏗️ Sustainable Manufacturing, Applications, Resilient Infrastructures, and Building Technologies based on Carbon (SMART C):
Geoff Wehmeyer, Karen Lozano, Michelle Foss, Vanessa Sanchez, Larissa Simoes Novelino, Juan José Castellón, Daniel Preston
🌋 Geothermal Energy:
Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, Brandon Schmandt, Melodie French, Julia Morgan, Mark Torres, Helge Gonnermann, Sahar Bakhshian, Abbas Firoozabadi, Beatrice Riviere, Qilin Li, Daniel Cohan, Richard Johnson
🏙️ Sustainable Building Materials and Technologies for Resilient Cities:
Juan José Castellón, Kai Gong, Qilin Li, Larissa Simoes Novelino, Jun Lou, Laura Schaefer
☀️ Solar Communities:
Laura Schaefer, Dominic Boyer, Jim Elliott, Carrie Masiello, Aditya Mohite
🔁 Critical Materials Recovery and Recycling:
Rafael Verduzco, Menachem Elimelech, Raul Hernandez Sanchez
🌱 Biodiversity in the Anthropocene:
Scott Egan, Kory Evans, Lacy Johnson, Tom Miller, Ted Loch-Temzelides
⚗️ Advancing Nanostructured Materials for Catalysis:
Yimo Han, Guha Balakrishnan, Matt Jones
🧵 Fiber Futures:
Brett Schneider, Jesus Vassallo, Richard Johnson, George Ristow, Dominic Boyer, Chris Humphrey