To conduct a Critical Minerals and Metals Just Transition Listening Project

To support the research and writing of Starry Nights at the End of the World: How We Loved and Lost the Stars to be published by Penguin Random House

To train pre-doctoral scholars in collaborative energy and environmental economics and policy research by strengthening connections between the Expanding Diversity in Economics (EDE) and Energy Policy Institute at Chicago (EPIC) fellowship programs

To investigate community perspectives on the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral mining activities in the United States across three comparative case studies

To study the history of funding changes and inflection points at the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) over the past two decades

To support the organization of an interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder workshop assessing the governance, societal, and environmental impacts of deep-sea mining in the United States, with a focus on Hawaii

To study how societal considerations can be integrated into the early stages of energy technology research and development processes

To support the training of early career researchers in the National Science Policy Network through a Science Policy Scholars-in-Residence (SPSR) program focused on environment and justice

To support the research and writing of The Slime Mold’s Guide to World Domination, to be published by Simon & Schuster

To support the research and writing of How to Build Something That Will Last Forever: NASA Voyager’s Epic Journey into the Cosmos, to be published by Random House