ISEN offers quarterly courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Register for our popular fall courses now and learn about energy and sustainability in the 21st century. ISEN 210 is the first course in the three-part sequence required for the ISEN certificate.
Last fall, ISEN rolled out its Certificate in Energy and Sustainability. The seven-course certificate requires three ISEN classes, the first of which is offered in fall 2013. Apply to the certificate and enroll in ISEN 210, Intro to Sustainability, this registration season!
Sign up for Northwestern's Bike Commuter Challenge team and stop by NU Bike Commuter Stations June 10 and June 12 during the 2013 Chicagoland Bike-to-Work week, June 8-14.
Check out the new Office of Sustainability website to learn about university and student environmental initiatives, green job opportunities, and current events relating the environment and Northwestern.
Congratulations to SiNode Systems for winning the Rice Business Plan Competition and walking away with over $800,000 in investments. SiNode is a clean tech startup that commercialized an anode for lithium-ion batteries that allows the battery to charge more quickly and hold a charge 10 times longer than current technology. ISEN has helped support SiNode during its early years through booster and student funding. The SiNode team formed duing ISEN's class, NUvention Energy.
ISEN is excited to kick off spring with new classes and campus opportunities. Here's to a warm and sunny season -- but don't get too distracted by thoughts of summer!
Professor Friesema directed the Environmental Policy and Culture Program, which he helped create in 2005. Professor Friesema has been a member of the Dept of Political Science and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research since 1968. At ISEN, we fondly remember him as one of the original teaching faculty members of ISEN 130.
SISE will give the next generation of professionals a knowledge of basic energy science of Transportation to address the rapid advances it brings to the scientific, technical, and cultural foundations of society.
Jiaxing Huang's Booster research demonstrated that the capacitance of crumpled graphene increased roughly linearly with mass, suggesting the devices could be scaled up for various applications.
Tyo’s award includes funding for research and tuition fees and stipend for a full-time graduate student. His project will address “High Biofuel Conversion Yields through Degrading Byproduct Enzymes.”
The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for [...]
In a three-month investigation, a team of graduate student reporters from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communication has found that the United St [...]
ISEN Workstudy Position Available:
Assist the Research Administrator with budget reconciliation, and with general office administrative work, beginning Spring Quarter. Contact isen@northwestern.edu for details, if interested.
