The SAGE program has research thusts in three areas of energy research. Research within these areas will examine technology development, health imacts and economic viability.
· BioFuels
IGERT fellows are expected to work in teams assembled around one of the three research areas. Within these teams, students will use their discipline-specific expertise to help promote their team’s progress. There is a heavily influence in this project on interdisciplinary collaboration between team members. In the interdisciplinary teams, chemists and engineers will create potential solutions using the greenest materials and methods currently available. Toxicologists and environmental health scientists will evaluate progress and identify emerging opportunities for improved design. Social scientists and policy experts will identify and explain drivers and barriers for new innovations. Research projects originating in any of the thrusts will have the benefit of input from the other experts working on the related problems in their respective disciplines. This will empower students to generate interdisciplinary research questions, including those that extend beyond the scope of those presented below. Fellows from the various disciplines will work together to address both the development and potential impacts of new energy technologies. Each SAGE fellow will be mentored by faculty in two different disciplines whose work addresses related research thrusts.
