The Aspen Daily News published Brad Marston’s article, “On Physics: Removing atmospheric CO2 to stop climate change: Can it be done?” on Jul 3, 2025.

Brad Marston is a climate and quantum physicist at Brown University and president-elect of the American Physical Society. He is the core faculty member of Initiative for Sustainable Energy since 2023.

Feng Lin has joined the Brown University School of Engineering as Associate Professor, with an appointment beginning July 1. He was also jointly appointed in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and affiliated with the Macromolecules Innovation Institute.

Lucas Caretta, the Howard M. Reisman ’76 P’09 assistant professor of engineering at Brown University, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development grant from the National Science Foundation.

NCSE announced the winners of the Friend of the Planet award for 2025: The CLEO Institute, a non-profit organization seeking to build climate literacy and mobilize climate action, directed by Yoca Arditi-Rocha; Kim Cobb, a climate scientist and gifted climate communicator at Brown University (formerly at Georgia Institute of Technology); and John Toohey-Morales, a Florida-based atmospheric and environmental scientist who was among the first broadcast meteorologists to emphasize climate change on the air.

A new APS report, co-written by ISE Core Faculty Member and APS President-elect Brad Marston, outlines the challenges of scrubbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Applications to the one-year, on-campus program will close on May 1. Nitin Padture, a professor of engineering and the director of the ISE said “We really need an educated workforce who can understand what’s going on (and) how to transform from a historically carbon-based economy to a decarbonized economy."

Francis J. Doyle III, Provost of Brown University, announced the appointment of Prof. Greg Hirth, a professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, as Brown’s next Vice President for Research. He is also a core faculty member of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy (ISE).

This article includes commentary from Professor of Engineering Nitin Padture, Director of Initiative for Sustainable Energy (ISE), on the life expectancies of different types of solar cells.

Twenty-five faculty members and three emeriti faculty of Brown Engineering have been recognized among the world’s top two percent of scientists in 2024, according to Stanford/Elsevier’s Top 2% Scientist Rankings. Among them, eight are core faculty members of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy. They are Andrew Peterson, Angus Kingon, Brian Sheldon, Daniel Mittleman, Franklin Goldsmith, Pradeep Guduru, Nitin Padture, Yue Qi,