Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) Archive

  • WISER Issues Request for Proposals for 2025 Seed Funding Grants Program

    WISER Issues Request for Proposals for 2025 Seed Funding Grants Program

    Illinois Tech's Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) has issued a Request for Proposals for the 2025 Cross-disciplinary Seed Funding Grants (CSFG) program. Initiated in 2009, the CSFG program is designed to support and enhance new and innovative cross-disciplinary research concepts that are expected to attract major external funding in areas of national interest related to energy and sustainability.

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  • 2024 WISER Distinguished Lectureship Series: “Designing Better Materials and Systems for Future Batteries,” Featuring Y. Shirley Meng

    2024 WISER Distinguished Lectureship Series: “Designing Better Materials and Systems for Future Batteries,” Featuring Y. Shirley Meng

    Illinois Tech's Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) and Armour College of Engineering, with the Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST) will present the 2024 Distinguished Lectureship on Wednesday, September 25, at 3:30 p.m. CT. This year's lectureship will feature Dr. Y. Shirley Meng, Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC) research group at The University of Chicago, and Chief Scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS).

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  • WISER 2024 Seed-Funding Grant Proposal Deadline Approaching

    WISER 2024 Seed-Funding Grant Proposal Deadline Approaching

    Illinois Tech's Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) has issued a Request for Proposals for the 2024 Cross-disciplinary Seed Funding Grants (CSFG) program. Proposals must be submitted electronically by close of business (5:00 pm CT) on Mon., April 1, 2024, to the Office of Sponsored Research.

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  • WISER Issues Request for Proposals for 2024 Seed Funding Grants Program

    WISER Issues Request for Proposals for 2024 Seed Funding Grants Program

    Illinois Tech's Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) has issued a Request for Proposals for the 2024 Cross-disciplinary Seed Funding Grants (CSFG) program. Proposals must be submitted electronically by close of business (5:00 pm CT) on Mon., April 1, 2024, to the Office of Sponsored Research

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  • 2023 WISER Distinguished Lectureship Series to Feature GTI Energy Leadership

    2023 WISER Distinguished Lectureship Series to Feature GTI Energy Leadership

    lllinois Tech's Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) and Armour College of Engineering, with the Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST) will present the 2023 Distinguished Lectureship Series featuring President and CEO of GTI Energy Paula Gant and Director of Systems Modeling at GTI Energy Derek Wissmiller.

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  • 2022 WISER Distinguished Lectureship Series to Feature NAE Member David Allen, UT Austin (presented LIVE and via YOUTUBE)

    2022 WISER Distinguished Lectureship Series to Feature NAE Member David Allen, UT Austin (presented LIVE and via YOUTUBE)

    Illinois Tech's Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) and Armour College of Engineering, with the Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST) will present the 2022 Distinguished Lecturer David T. Allen.

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  • WISER 2022 Seed-Funding Grant Proposal Deadline Approaching

    WISER 2022 Seed-Funding Grant Proposal Deadline Approaching

    Illinois Tech's Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) has issued a Request for Proposals for the 2022 Cross-disciplinary Seed Funding Grants (CSFG) program, designed to support and enhance new and innovative cross-disciplinary research concepts. Proposal deadline: 5:00 p.m. Monday April 4.

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  • Illinois Tech Alumni Team Publishes Novel Transport Phenomena Chemical Engineering Textbook

    Illinois Tech Alumni Team Publishes Novel Transport Phenomena Chemical Engineering Textbook

    Illinois Tech alumni Dr. Hamid Arastoopour, Dr. Dimitri Gidaspow and Dr. Robert W. Lyczkowski collaborated as authors of the newly released book, Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems. Margaret M. Murphy served as editor of the textbook which fills the need for a textbook presenting basic governing and constitutive equations, followed by several engineering problems on multiphase flow and transport that are not provided in current advanced texts, monographs, or handbooks.

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  • 2021 WISER Distinguished Lectureship Series to Feature MIT Kendall Professor Evelyn Wang

    2021 WISER Distinguished Lectureship Series to Feature MIT Kendall Professor Evelyn Wang

    Illinois Tech's Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER), with Armour College of Engineering, and the Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST) will present 2021 Distinguished Lecturer Evelyn N. Wang on Wednesday, April 14 at 3:30 p.m.

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  • WISER Seed-Funding Grant Proposal Deadline Approaching

    WISER Seed-Funding Grant Proposal Deadline Approaching

    Illinois Tech's Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) has issued a Request for Proposals for the 2021 Cross-disciplinary Seed Funding Grants (CSFG) program. The CSFG program is designed to support and enhance new and innovative cross-disciplinary research concepts that are expected to attract major external funding in areas of national interest related to energy and sustainability.

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