Fullbright Fellow to discuss sustainable energy at IMU

California Institute of Technology professor Sossina Haile will discuss sustainable energy at 3 p.m. today as part of this year’s Outstanding Women in Science Lecture.

Haile’s talk, sponsored by the Women in Science Program of IU’s Office for Women’s Affairs and the National Society for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers will take place in the Whittenberger Auditorium of the Indiana
Memorial Union.

Haile, who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will discuss climate change through carbon-neutral fuel cell technology in a lecture titled “Fuels from Sunlight, Water and Carbon Dioxide: A Thermochemical Approach.”

Before joining the Caltech faculty in 1996, she spent three years at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Haile has received the National Science Foundation National Young Investigator Award, Humboldt Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship and AT&T Cooperative Research
Fellowship.

— Margaret Ely