Year: 2025

Meet the Expert: Matthew Oliver

  • Publication date February 2, 2025
  • Categories: Oliver

Master of the rebound — Economist Matthew Oliver measures the sometimes concealed costs of pivoting to clean energy Students in Matthew Oliver’s economics of environment and international energy markets classes likely don’t have a clue about his unusual journey to the lectern: “I was bent on being a rock and roll musician from the time […]

Meet the Expert: Valerie Thomas

  • Publication date January 2, 2025
  • Categories: Thomas

Shifting focus from theoretical physics to research on environmental problems over the course of her distinguished career, the professor is working to decarbonize the industrial complex. Climate change might feel like an intractable problem but Valerie Thomas wants us to take heart. “It’s not hard, we make it hard. We can recreate our industrial system,” […]