Calendar of Events
2nd Annual Energy Week
September 17–23
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Forum Film Festival
September 19, 2008
Learn more about the Film Festival
The University of Notre Dame will host a single day festival that is devoted to showcasing the best and brightest short films that engage the topic of the Presidential Forum. The Film Festival will be a component of a year-long series of films relating to energy.
Film titles will be added as they are confirmed
- Friday, September 12, 2008
- Friday, September 19, 2008: 2008 ND Forum Film Festival
- Sunday, September 21, 2008
- Tuesday, September 23, 2008: An Inconvenient Truth, Decio Mainstage Theatre
- Thursday, September 25, 2008
- Friday, September 26, 2008
- Friday, November 14, 2008
- Friday, February 20-22, 2009: Green-Screen 2009
- Friday, March 20, 2009
Forum 2008
September 24
3:00–5:00 p.m.
Joyce Center Arena
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Learn about our distinguished guests
Forum on the Future of Electric Power
Sponsored by the Notre Dame Energy Center and the College of Engineering
February 25, 2009
3:00–5:00 p.m.
Main Auditorium, McKenna Hall
Panelists
- Anthony Early, Jr.: Chairman and Chief Executive Office of DTE Energy
- Patrick Eilers: Managing Director of Madison Dearborn Partners
- William Hederman: Executive Director, Energy Resources Group, Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius, LLP
- Michael O’Sullivan: Senior Vice-President for Development at FPL Energy
Past Events
Alumni Reunion 2008 Seminars
Solar Energy—Beyond the Hype
Prashant V. Kamat, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Friday, May 30
9:00 to 10:00 a.m.
DeBartolo Hall, Room 131
The increasing energy demand is forcing us to seek environmentally clean alternative energy resources. Major breakthroughs in developing economically viable solar devices are necessary to sustain the lifestyle of 6.5 billion people worldwide. Are we ready for the change? Sponsored by the College of Engineering.
Green: The Verb Sustainability on Campus
George Oser, PhD ‘58
Friday, May 30
10:15 to 11:15 a.m.
DeBartolo Hall, Room 131
Explore the current and future of sustainability on campus. Estimating the campus carbon footprint now and setting a goal for 2020. Weaving into a whole cloth efforts by the administration, faculty, students and alums to increase sustainability through behaviors, technology and cost control using information from peer universities.
Is There Really an Energy Crisis?
Edward J. Maginn, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Friday, May 30
3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
McKenna Hall/CCE, Auditorium
Are we running out of energy? Where does our energy come from? What does the future hold? These and other energy-related topics will be explored.
Film: A Crude Awakening
April 30, 2008
8:00 p.m.
Montgomery Auditorium, LaFortune
Sponsored by the ND Energy Center Student Advisory Board
Earth Week 2008 Events
April 19-27
Tree Planting with the Near Northwest Neighborhood
April 19
8:00 a.m.
Meet at McKenna Hall
Environmental Interfaith Service
April 20
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Grotto
Speed Dating/Coffee and Discussion
April 21
7:00-8:30 p.m.
O’Shaughnessy Great Hall
Earth Day Festival
April 22
2:00–5:00 p.m.
Fieldhouse Mall
Features campus and community environmental groups,food and live music
Vegetarian No-Waste Dinner
April 23
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Coleman-Morse Lounge
Nature Film Festival, ND-8 Water Walk
April 24
9:00 p.m.–midnight
155 DeBartolo Hall
Power Plant Tours
April 25
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Space is limited
E-mail tfurlong@nd.edu to reserve your space!
CSC Canned Food Drive
April 26
10:00 a.m.
Meet at Legends
Best Buddies Earth Picnic
April 27
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Stepan Center
“Green is the ‘New Black’, But Will it Stay in Style?”
Anne Thompson
Chief Environmental Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
April 11
10:40 a.m.
Jordan Auditorium, Mendoza College of Business
One of the “Ten Years Hence” lectures sponsored by the Mendoza College of Business
“Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost?”
Ken Ostrowski
Director, McKinsey & Company
April 11
4:30–6:30 p.m.
Lecture and Reception
101 Jordan Hall of Science and Main Galleria
Notre Dame Energy Center Distinguished Lecture Series
“Seven Revolutions”
Erik Peterson, Senior VP and Director, Global Strategy Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies
February 1
“Convention on the Global Commons”
James Quilligan, Managing Director, Centre for Global Negotiations
March 28
“Energy Security”
General James L. Jones, President and CEO, U.S. Chamber Institute for 21st Century Energy
April 4
Conference: Energy, Citizens, and Economic Transformation for Indiana and America
Monday, July 7, 2008
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
McKenna Hall
Registration required by July 1
Sponsored by the Notre Dame Energy Center
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The Notre Dame Energy Center and the University of Notre Dame are sponsoring a free conference for researchers and industry and government leaders concerned about the future of energy research, its effect on society, and the potential it bears for transformative economic change in Indiana and across the country.
Participants will explore strategic business and economic opportunities in basic and applied energy research for new technologies, as well as near-term bridging technologies and the transformation of the energy industry. Learn more about the conference.
Forum Film Festival
Call for Entries
*Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2008
Download the Film Festival Entry Form
