2024
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November 2024
Resources for the Future has a Sloan-funded open Request for Proposals on evaluating IRA and IIJA clean energy policies; nominations open for fellows to attend Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials Scialog in 2025; our ongoing collaboration with Research Corporation for Science Advance (RSCA) on multiple Scialog conference series; an op-ed in Nature Energy on the importance of transparency in energy and environment philanthropy
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August 2024
Announcing awardees from Open Call on critical minerals and metals in the US; negative emission science Scialog series featured in Sloan’s annual impact report 2023 Highlights; Photovoice project in West Virginia highlights intersection of crise and climate justice; National Academies of Sciences releases workshop proceedings on social science research needs for industrial decarbonization
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March 2024
Sloan marks a decade of energy and environment grantmaking; announcing 2023 Negative Emission Scialog awardees; student feature highlights two postdoctoral fellows working on collaborative project between Boston University, University of Delaware, and Virginia Tech; special Sloan in the Wild segment discusses study on solar energy impacts to wildlife movement
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2023
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April 2023
A special Sloan in the Wild feature on historical development of power system optimization and control algorithms; how to improve wildfire disaster response; student profile spotlights Cody Hohl (Pennsylvania State University) and Sayeh Shojaeinia (Colorado School of Mines); Sloan-supported research into energy system decarbonization.
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July 2023
An interview with The Regional Transmission Organization Governance Network on interdisciplinary research into electricity market governance; Indiana University Energy Justice Lab's new tool to track and analyze power outages; Sloan grants to support industrial decarbonization, transportation, and critical minerals and metals.
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November 2023
New Open Call for Letters of Inquiry for projects on critical minerals and metals in the United States; student profile highlights Kerri Clement (Montana State University) and Alessandra Zito (UC Irvine); announcing new collaboration with Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) on Scialog series Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials (SM3)
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2022
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March 2022
Open call for research proposals on energy system electrification; new research on means testing electric vehicle subsidies; an interview with Erica Fischer (Oregon State) and Brad Wham (UC Boulder) on developing sensors to detect infrastructure damage from wildfires.
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August 2022
Grant announcements for Sloan's call for proposals on energy equity research; a new study looks back at 50 years of the Clean Air Act; rebates vs. tax credits in motivating EV purchases; MIT Energy Initiative releases its Future of Energy Storage report.
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December 2022
Grant announcements for Sloan’s call for proposals on energy system electrification; an update to the social cost of carbon; pumped underground storage hydropower (PUSH) potential in the US; a look back at Energy Insights 2022 conference.
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2021
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August 2021
Inaugural edition of the Sloan Energy and Environment Program newsletter. Read about novel research results, newly funded grants, hear from Sloan-supported students, and learn about our program.
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December 2021
Launching the University Energy Institute Collaborative; the effects of letting smart thermostats react to electricity prices; an interview with University of Michigan scholar Aditi Verma.
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