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Yue Qi, the Joan Wernig Sorensen Professor of Engineering at Brown University and member of ISE executive committee has received the 2025 Ross Coffin Purdy Award from The American Ceramic Society for a 2023 Nature Communications research paper. Presented annually, the Purdy honors the most valuable technical contribution to ceramic literature published two years prior. There were two awarded papers in 2025.
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.
School of Engineering

Feng Lin Joins Brown School of Engineering

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.
Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences

Kim Cobb, ISE affiliate member, receives NCSE Friend of the Planet award for 2025

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.
Today@Brown

Greg Hirth Named Vice President for Research

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).