The Green Speakeasy events were created to give both faculty and graduate students throughout the University the opportunity to meet and learn about each other’s research areas, with the goal of encouraging future collaboration and interdisciplinary work. If you have ideas for future speakers, please share them with us at mcsi@pitt.edu.
Please check back soon.
February 22, 2023
Green Speakeasy Research Slam
Todd Reeser, Chair, Humanities Council
Drew Armstrong, History of Art & Architecture
Daniela Fargione, Italian
Aaron Henderson, Studio Arts
Zach Horton, English
Apala Kundu, English
Ruth Mostern, History
Leopold Mvuezolo, French
Vicky Shen, History
John Walsh, French
Molly Warsh, History
February 22, 2022
Changing Energy for Good: Scaling an Equitable Energy Transition with the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet
Sundaa Bridgett-Jones, Chief Partnerships & Advocacy Officer, The Rockefeller Foundation
October 19, 2021
Food Shot: Launching Moonshots for Better Food
Sara Eckhouse, Executive Director, FoodShot Global
April 13, 2021
Earth Month Teach-In: Leveraging Research to Inform Calls to Action
Melissa Bilec, Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation
Jessica Burke, Public Health
Emily Elliott, Geology & Environmental Science
Shannah Gilliam, Homewood Children’s Village
Mary Ohmer, Social Work
Carla Ng, Engineering
Kay Shimizu, Political Science
March 16, 2021
Pitt Deans Talk Sustainability—Countering Climate Change, Forging Sustainability the Pitt Way
Ann Cudd, Provost, University of Pittsburgh
Carissa Slotterback, Dean, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Maureen Lichtveld, Dean, Graduate School of Public Health
Amy Wildermuth, Dean, School of Law
February 16, 2021
Asia—the Planet's Battleground for Climate Change
Divya Nawale, International Research Associate, Asian Development Bank
November 19, 2020
Making the Invisible Visible: Developing Hyperlocal Air Monitoring Networks to Better Inform Policy Development and Enactment
Dr. Harold Rickenbacker, Manager, Clean Air and Innovation Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
October 15, 2020
Adapting to Climate Change: Lessons Learned Relocating an Alaskan Village
Donald Antrobus, Village Infrastructure Protection Program Manager for the Denali Commission
Joel Neimeyer, P.E., retired Federal Engineer
September 24, 2020
Responsible Investment for a Sustainable World
Tom Croft, Executive Director, Steel Valley Authority, and Managing Director, Heartland Capital Strategies Network
Hosted by the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation and the Center for Sustainable Business.
February 25, 2020
Pitt and Water Resources: Building University-wide Capacity to Meet Water Sustainability Challenges
Emily Elliott, Director at the Pittsburgh Collaboratory for Water Research, Education & Outreach
Dr. Dan Bain, Associate Director
Dr. Eitan Shelef, Associate Director
October 16, 2019
Environmental Protection in the Trump Era: the Staining of Science, Economics and Legal Analysis
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Amy Wildermuth, Dean, School of Law
April 4, 2017
Green Computing: Saving Energy In and Through Computing
Daniel Mosse, Professor, Computer Science
February 7, 2017
Managing What We Can’t See: Sustainable Groundwater Use
Brian Thomas, Assistant Professor, Geology and Environmental Science
November 15, 2016
Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
April 11, 2016
When Science isn’t Enough: Finding Interdisciplinary Solutions to Global Nitrogen Problems
Emily Elliott, Associate Professor, Geology and Planetary Science
February 1, 2016
Shifts in Sustainability, Seen through Multidisciplinary World History
Patrick Manning, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History, and Director, World History Center
November 2, 2015
Environmental Exposures and Human Health in Social Context
Jane Clougherty, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
September 14, 2015
Can Economists Solve our Sustainability Challenges?
Jeremy Weber, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
April 14, 2015
Why Is It So Hard to Find Truly Green Products, Yet So Easy to Find Green-Washed Products?
Eric Beckman, Co-Director, Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation
March 16, 2015
Marcellus Shale, Sustainability Science and the PA Supreme Court
Bernie Goldstein, Former Dean, Graduate School of Public Health
