Learn more about faculty research projects that have been funded by the Irving Institute by exploring the links below. Funded projects are organized by category and awarding cycle.
Soil Incubation Experiments to Inform a Strategy for Cellulosic Biofuel Production that Avoids Land Competition and Enhances Soil Health
Project Team: Caitlin Hicks Pries (Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences), Lee Lynd (Professor, Thayer), Michelle Wang (student); Sarah Goldsmith (Staff, Biological Sciences)
Summer 2021
The Dartmouth Big Green-Energy House: Impacts of Geothermal Energy Technology for Agriculture
Project Team: Theresa Ong (Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies), Caitlin Hicks Pries (Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences); Laura Braasch (staff, Sustainability Office); Molly McBride (staff, Sustainability Office): Alana Danieu (Research Asst), Undergraduate and graduate students
Summer 2021
Woody Biofuels in the State Of New Hampshire: Analyzing the Social and Environmental Impacts of Forest-Based Bioenergy in the Granite State
Project Lead: David Lutz, Environmental Studies Department
Winter 2019
Written on the Land: Observations on Sustainability in the Louisiana Bayou and the California Desert
Project Lead: Virginia Beahan, Studio Art
Summer 2020
A Photographic Exploration of Energy
Project Lead: Eli Burakian, Dartmouth Communications Office
Summer 2020
Convergence: Bridging the Gap Between Art and Science
Project Lead: Mary Lou Aleskie, Hopkins Center for the Arts
Summer 2019
Energy Justice: Pedagogy and Practice
Project Leads: Sarah Kelly (Postdoctoral Researcher, Anthropology), Maron Greenleaf (Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Anthropology)
Summer 2021
Teaching the Social Lives of Clean Energy
Project Lead: Laura Ogden, Anthropology Department
Summer 2020
Developing Dartmouth General Chemistry Curriculum Toward Energy and the Environment
Project Lead: Anita Prasad, Chemistry Department
Summer 2019
Constructing Effective Demand Response Programs in New Hampshire's Electric Market
Project Leads: Junyang Cui '21 and Harish Tekriwal '21 (Economics majors)
Winter 2019
Human Exposure, Health and Societal Issues in Rural New Hampshire Associated with Wood and Pellet Stoves as Home Heating Sources
Project Leads: Brian Jackson, Earth Sciences Department; Laura Paulin, Geisel School of Medicine
Summer 2020
Quantification of Air Pollution from Natural Gas Development and Relationship to Health Outcomes
Project Leads: Charlotte Ward, Margaret Karagas, Geisel School of Medicine
Dartmouth Rural Health and Energy Equity Advancement Lab (DR-HE2AL)
Project Leads: Lisa Adams, Geisel School of Medicine; Anne Sosin, Dickey Center for International Understanding
Winter 2019
Mapping Country-wide Energy Access for the Majority World
Project Lead: Neeti Pokhriyal, Computer Science
Summer 2020
Renewable Energy for the Majority World: A Pilot Project in Fond Des Blancs Haiti
Project Lead: Jack Wilson, Studio Art
Summer 2019
Community Energy Dashboard
Project Leads: April Salas, Revers Center for Energy at Tuck; Margaret Karagas, Geisel School of Medicine
Summer 2019
Survey of Energy and Indigenous Environmental Studies in the Americas
Project Lead: Laura Ogden, Anthropology Department
Winter 2019
Sustainable Energy for Remote and Underserved Communities
Project Lead: Mary Albert, Thayer School of Engineering
Winter 2019
Hydropower Development and Knowledge Controversies in Transboundary Rivers
Project Lead: Christopher Sneddon, Geography Department
Winter 2019
Tuning the Molecular Design of Porous Electrodes for Selective CO2 Reduction into Fuels
Project Leads: Weiyang (Fiona) Li, Thayer School of Engineering; Katherine Mirica, Chemistry Department
Summer 2020
Engineering Robust Bifacial Architectures for Boosting the Efficiency of Low-Cost Perovskite Solar Energy
Project Leads: William Scheideler and Jifeng Liu, Thayer School of Engineering
Summer 2019
Ambient Energy Harvesting Devices to Power the Internet of Things-Based Sensor Networks
Project Lead: Lin Dong, Thayer School of Engineering
Summer 2019
High Performance Nickel-Iron (NiFe) Permanent magnetics for Electric Motors and Turbines
Project Lead: Ian Baker, Thayer School of Engineering
Winter 2019
Lebanon's Transactive Energy Blockchain Prototype
Project Lead: Amro Farid, Thayer School of Engineering
Winter 2019
Powering the Carbon-Neutral Energy Cycle: Energy-Efficient Catalysts For Co2 Reduction
Project Leads: Weiyang (Fiona) Li, Thayer School of Engineering; Katherine Mirica, Chemistry Department
Winter 2019