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Contact: Jennifer Mott, College of Sciences and Technology, (360) 650-2454

BELLINGHAM - Western Washington University's College of Sciences and Technology,  Huxley College of the Environment and the Sigma Xi Honorary Research Society will host Kimberly Gray at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 24, in Fraser 4 as she presents "Energy and the Environment: The Central Challenge of Sustainability."

Kimberly Gray

"There is an urgent need to determine the near-term and long-term paths to a sustainable future in an integrated fashion if we are to protect future generations, the environment, and the economies of the world. Technological breakthroughs alone will not rescue us if they are not coupled to changes in how we live and where we live," said Gray. "Do we have the political will to pursue these changes? Do we have sufficient scientific and technical understanding to alter the course we began charting hundreds of years ago as societies moved from subsistence agricultural to highly industrialized economies?"

"Gray, a national leader in areas of energy and the environment, brings interesting and important perspectives to essential questions of how energy alternatives impact the environment and what the political challenges to alternative energy solutions will be," said Arlan Norman, Dean of Western's College of Sciences and Technology.

Gray is a professor in Northwestern University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has a secondary appointment in Chemical and Biological Engineering and is a member of the Center for Catalysis and Surface Science and Institute of Policy Research at Northwestern University. She received her doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 and worked as a research engineer for the Lyonnaise des Eaux in Paris for two years. She joined the Northwestern faculty in 1995 and since 2003 has been Director of the Environmental Science, Engineering and Policy Program.

This event is free and open to the public, and is part of the WWU College of Sciences and Technologies Leaders in Their Field Lecture Series.

For more information contact Jennifer Mott at (360) 650-2454.

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