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Energy partnerships and deep expertise make the Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center a hotbed of activity for entrepreneurs advancing the clean energy transition.

Go behind the scenes at one of the Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center’s labs, where researchers are developing the next generation of batteries, fuel cells, and electrolyzers.

We are proud to present the Junior Faculty in Batteries: The Next Generation of Energy Storage virtual symposium that is taking place on December 10, 2021 from 10:30am-6:00pm EST, organized by Professor Lauren Marbella. This symposium features rising stars in the battery field who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and lack of in-person meetings. Leaders in the energy storage field are presiding over sessions and discussions, including a panel on how to navigate the tenure and promotion process during COVID-19, with closing remarks by Nobel Laureate M. Stanley Whittingham. Early career researchers interested in attending can register to participate.

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Awarded annually to a graduating senior who has actively engaged in research within the Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center and has plans for a career in clean energy technologies, this award honors the late Paul Duby, a SEAS professor, renowned expert in electrochemical systems, and tireless advocate for students. Students from any SEAS department are eligible and will be nominated by their CEEC advisor and should have demonstrated the ability to articulate the intellectual merit of their research and its broader impact on the field of electrochemical energy. 

Dear Students and Friends of the CEEC:

We are committed to being an anti-racist organization. The long existent and stark inequalities that minimize, marginalize and endanger the lives and contributions of all Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), and the systemic behaviors that give cover to the wrongful deaths of so many, have been brought into the forefront by the murders of George Floyd, Breanna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and the deaths of so many more due to societal conditions that have worsened the effects of COVID-19 on BIPOC communities.

All of us at the CEEC are working to improve energy and environmental conditions for future generations, but we have neglected to apply this vision to also improving the lives of our BIPOC students, colleagues, friends and neighbors. What we have seen time and time again is that any crisis, be it political, economic, health or environmental has an amplified and outsized negative impact on BIPOC communities. In our work to address energy futures we must make energy and environmental equity for all the ultimate goal.

We are reaching out to you with our commitment to do more, recognizing that the time for words is long past. We look forward to working with all of you as we endeavor to create real change.

In the short term we encourage you to watch two events hosted by Columbia on Thursday June 11 that consider the challenges and opportunities to effect positive change:

• Democracy in the Time of Pandemic and Protest: Nsé Ufot and María Teresa Kumar in Conversation with Olatunde Johnson (video)
• University Life Forum: Black Lives Matter, Protest and Creating Change (video coming soon)

Warm regards,

Jingguang Chen 

Dan Esposito

Jeff Fitts

Lauren Marbella

Vijay Modi

Matthias Preindl

Dan Steingart

Alexander Urban

Alan West

Bolun Xu

Yuan Yang