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(This event has been canceled due to weather. Further updates to follow.)
The 2017 Winter Forum, Power to the People: Tackling Energy Inequality through Clean Energy Solutions, will be held January 8-10, 2017. The event is sponsored by the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, Duke University Energy Initiative, Nicolas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, and the Duke University Office of Undergraduate Education. Students will compete to develop the best solutions for unequal energy access at home and abroad using case analysis and storytelling skills. The Global Inequality Research Initiative (GIRI) 2016 fall seminar “Energy and Equity” will explore equity issues related to domestic and international energy access and ways to rectify persistent inequitable distribution of clean and renewable energy resources. Students from the GIRI program will play a leadership role in the forum, as they will have been exploring these issues throughout the previous semester.
The Winter Forum is a campus-based, non-credit curricular experience in an intense, retreat-like setting in which undergraduates interact with graduate/professional students, alumni and faculty to explore a major global issue from interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives. The Winter Forum is held over 2.5 days immediately before the start of the spring semester.
For more information, visit the event website.