Scott Institute announces seed grants

Recently announced funding from the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation will stimulate new research initiatives ranging from developing a tool that can help people assess the climate risks of hydroelectric projects globally to finding a way to produce semiconductors economically for use in ultra-high efficiency power electronic devices. The four projects that will be funded by this round of seed grants were awarded to:

• MSE’s Noa Marom in partnership with Machine Learning's Barnabas Poczos
• MSE’s Lisa Porter, in collaboration with MSE’s Robert Davis and Yoosuf Picard and ChemE’s Erik Ydstie
• CEE/EPP’s H. Scott Matthews in collaboration with CEE’s Costa Samaras, EPP’s Paulina Jaramillo, and CEE/EPP’s Ana Caceres
• MSE’s Bryan Webler, in partnership with MSE’s Vincent Sokalski