Institute for Energy and the Environment

Cultivating a discussion of local, national and global interests and research in energy and environmental issues, from the perspectives of:

Policy

Economics

Technology

Law

As an institute, this initiative is an effort to attract contributions from faculty across the University and the wider community who have interest in energy and its impact on local and global communities and the environment.

Institute Leaders

Dr. Alan W. Seadler, Associate Academic Vice-President for Research, will lead the efforts to organize and fund the institute.

Dr. Kent Moors, our scholar-in-residence, Political Science Professor in the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts and well-known international energy consultant.

Dr. Michael Irwin, Chair and Associate Professor, Sociology Department, specializing in research in spatial processes, urban and community studies, demography and social ecology.

Daniel R. Thompson, II, Institute for Energy and the Environment, specializing in research in policy, budgetary, and microeconomic aspects of hydrocarbon development, particularly shale gas.

Duquesne Faculty Associates

Dr. John F. Stolz, Director, Center for Environmental Research and Education; Professor, Environmental Microbiology

Dr. Clifford Bob, Associate Professor, Political Science Department n the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts.

Associates From Other Institutions

Dr. David L. Passmore, Professor of Education in the Workforce Education and Development academic program, Department of Learning and Performance Systems, College of Education, Penn State University.

Dr. Randall W. Jackson, Director, Regional Research Institute; Professor, Geology & Geography Department, West Virginia University

Interdisciplinary Structure

Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit established the Institute for Energy and the Environment in March, 2011. It involves researchers from Duquesne's McAnulty College, School of Law, John F. Donahue School of Business, and the Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, as well as experts - both scholarly and otherwise - drawn from outside Duquesne University itself. The collaborative approach, conducted in a think-tank-style setting, will provide the means by which to launch broad collaborations for researching energy and environmental issues, as well as establish an intellectual space to promote constructive dialogue in the search for real solutions to current and future problems.

Energy—or lack of it—will produce some of the largest consequences imaginable around the world. The institute at Duquesne will provide a needed source of serious research, fair and impartial discussions and substantive policy recommendations and advisories. -- Dr. Kent Moors