UCF Spring 2009 graduate Roberto Miguez recently began a National Institute of Health Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) at the University of Michigan. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Roberto earned his UCF bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a minor in mathematics. During his undergraduate career at UCF, Roberto completed an Honors in the Major thesis introducing the concept of a solar energy belt stretched across America.  His work demonstrated through mathematical modeling that such a project could be feasible, efficient, and cost-effective.
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Submitted by Rusty Okoniewski

Click here to view an article by Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute, titled “The Oil Intensity of Food.”  This article is an excerpt from the book Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.

“In short, with higher energy prices and a limited supply of fossil fuels, the modern food system that evolved when oil was cheap will not survive as it is now structured.”

View the full article at http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/Seg/PB3ch02_ss3.htm

Berlin, November 29 – December 5, 2009

The Environmental Policy Research Center (FFU) at Freie Universität Berlin is delighted to announce a call for papers for the first transatlantic PhD Workshop on “Forging Closer Ties: Transatlantic Relations, Climate and Energy.”
The PhD Workshop will bring together PhD students and faculty from Freie Universität Berlin and North American universities to examine developments in transatlantic climate and energy relations.
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Innovation has helped UCF to reduce its energy consumption by 22% since 2005.  Last week, Vice President for Administration and Finance Bill Merck presented UCF’s energy savings plan to the Florida Board of Governors as a model to demonstrate ways that universities can save money and the environment.

Click here to read the UCF News article that details how energy consumption is being reduced on campus.