All Past Events

This STEP Seminar features Theresa M. Cira, Kathy Quick, and Robert C. Venette, authors of a new article for American Entomologist: "The Consequences of Linguistic Uncertainty for Insect Management," which they describe as "a call to entomologists to consider the uncertainty introduced into our works through the language we use." 

This STEP Seminar features Annie Levenson-Falk, Executive Director of the Citizens Utility Board of Minnesota, in a discussion of what it's like to be a consumer advocate in the energy transition

In December, UMN faculty, staff, and graduate students traveled to Madrid, Spain, to attend the 25th annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP25), or international climate talks. In this STEP Seminar, they discuss how COP25 connected to the UMN delegation's varied expertise and interests, what they observed firsthand, and what successes and failures they saw at COP25. 

This STEP Seminar about food insecurity on campus features Dr. Michael Stebleton, CEHD Associate Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Programs in Higher Education, and Rebecca Leighton, Master of Public Health and founder of the on-campus Nutritious U Food Pantry.

This STEP Seminar features Katherine Blauvelt and Joe Sullivan, both from the Energy Resources Division of the Minnesota Department of Commerce, in a discussion about Minnesota energy policy and their experiences as policy makers.

This STEP Seminar features Richard Graves, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Building Research in the University of Minnesota's College of Design. 

In this STEP Seminar, Dr. Pooja Kanwar, Water Policy Consultant for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, shares her career path into water policy, starting from her childhood years throughout her academic career and ending with her current role with the DNR. 

This STEP Seminar on science communication features Katie Nyquist, MPH, CHES. Nyquist is a Health Communications Planner in the Drinking Water Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC) Program at the Minnesota Department of Health. 

This STEP Seminar features Will Seuffert, Executive Director of the Environmental Quality Board. The EQB develops policy, creates long-range plans and reviews proposed projects that would significantly influence Minnesota’s environment.

This Summer Seminar features Patrick Hamilton, director of global change initiatives at the Science Museum of Minnesota.

This STEP seminar features MPP-STEP grad and lawyer Kathryn Hoffman, who works to support energy and mining issues at the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy.

This STEP Seminar features Scott Strand, a senior attorney leading natural resources protection legal advocacy in the Upper Midwest.

This STEP Seminar features a presentation of master's capstone project Decarbonizing Medium-Duty Vehicles in Minnesota and master's thesis Market Rules in Transition: Energy Storage Value and the U.S. Electric Grid.

This STEP Seminar features two MS-STEP capstone groups: Planning for Climate Adaptation in Ramsey County and Uncertainty and Opportunity on the Ice: Community-Engaged Research in Lake of the Woods.
 

This lunchtime seminar features Jordan Morgan, MS-STEP, in a discussion about his Capstone work.

Matt Grimley, MS-STEP, presents his master's thesis, Cooperative is an Oxymoron: The Transition of Midwestern Electric Cooperatives to Load Management Technologies, 1940s to Present.

This lunchtime seminar features Mary Blitzer, Engagement Manager for the Sierra Club North Star Chapter.

This STEP Seminar features a panel of water policy experts, moderated by STEP Professor Bonnie Keeler.

This STEP Seminar features Genya Dana, the Head of Precision Medicine at the World Economic Forum.

In this STEP Seminar, students and faculty from the Global Convergence Lab discuss their experience in Puerto Rico and plans for future collaboration.

This STEP Seminar features Kate Davenport, Co-President of Eureka Recycling, whose mission "is to demonstrate that waste is preventable, not inevitable."

This panel highlights reflections from the cohort of UMN and Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy students who attended the COP24 UN Climate Negotiations in Katowice, Poland this winter.

This STEP Seminar features John Farrell, who directs the Energy Democracy Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and is widely known as the guru of distributed energy.

This conversation addresses the landscape of sustainable and equitable solutions to provide the benefits of renewable energy to low-income and disadvantaged homeowners that may be used by nonprofits as they work with Habitat for Humanity.