Fossil-Free Energy, Transportation, and Materials: A Chemist's Tale The Fellow’s projects in the Greening Diplomacy Initiative Office will be described, including the establishment of an Electric Vehi...

Situational Awareness and Course-of-Action Analysis in Complex Systems: The Role of High-Fidelity, High-Resolution Modeling and Simulation Attempts to control complex systems are notoriously prone to...

Climate Change and the Potential for the Weaponization of Water Climate change is altering water availability and leading to unprecedented water shortages in many parts of the world. The resulting wat...

Quantum Information Science: Building Positive International Relationships through Near-Future Technologies Quantum physics was invented in the 1920s and has continued developing for over a century to...

How We Can Reshape Urban Infrastructure & Improve Access Urban areas form to allow access—the efficient exchange of goods, services, and ideas. The time is ripe to think critically about how planning...

Climate Solutions: Fast and Slow The global nature of climate change warrants global action. Yet, that same scope can become an excuse for inaction. The U.S. Department of State has been instrumental...

Manure Happens: Human Alteration of the Global Nitrogen Cycle The Nitrogen "Equities" of the State Department Humans have profoundly altered the global nitrogen (N) cycle, even more than the carbon cy...

Learning and Assessing Learning Outcomes: A Practical View This talk represents some of the work I did during my time at the USAID Center for Education. After a few words about the (splendid) work of...

Global Tools and Techniques to Manage Local Solid Waste Problems: Social, Cultural, and Economic Impediments Successful solid waste management in developing countries requires tools and techniques fro...

How Global Emerging Technologies Can Support ESG, Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chains How America's Supply Chains resiliency is impacted by international events has become an important topic. Natu...

Universities as Partners in Development: Learning from the Resilient Africa Network How can universities advance development, particularly Locally Led Development (LLD)? Can they leverage their wide r...

International Collaborations for Planetary Defense As a civilization, we must protect our planet against asteroid impacts. Devastating impacts have happened (e.g., the dinosaur extinction) and will ha...