Sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology

Facilitators

Our presentations are given by students from a broad a diverse range of backgrounds from architecture to biochemistry to engineering.  With the help of faculty and staff, we are able to present the most recent and most relevant material currently available.

Satchall Erramilli

4th Year Molecular Biology and Biophysics Major

I think the goal of this project is, firstly, for team members to obtain a solid understanding of the validated facts concerning global warming, and secondly, to be able to disseminate these facts in an accessible manner to the general public. My hope is that by speaking to a broad
audience, and by presenting global warming in the context of current and future consequences, we will be able to reach those who can impact global warming corrective measures both now and in the future.

E-mail: serramil@iit.edu

Ashley Hodgson

4th Year Architecture Major

I would like to increase awareness on the issue of global warming and its causes.  I think we should all be educated on the renewable energy sources that can contribute the most towards the economy and global health.

Sara Wilde                

4th Year Psychology Major

I want everyone that we present to to be able to accurately know the facts about global warming after we are finished. I want them to be able to identify what causes global warming, what the effects are, and what we can do to help stop global warming.

Melissa Voss

3rd Year Biochemistry Major

Using these presentations I would like to build awareness and educate our audiences about global warming. Now more than ever it is important that everyone understands what global warming is and how it is caused.

Mark Reibel

4th Year Aerospace Engineering Major

I want people to know that even if they don't believe in global warming, there are many solutions out there that can offer us independence from foreign oil and costly energy bills.  Not only are new earth friendly technologies free, but they offer a solution to the global greenhouse gases that are at an all time high.

E-mail: ahodgson@iit.edu

E-mail: swilde@iit.edu

E-mail: mvoss2@iit.edu

E-mail: mreibel@iit.edu

Marc Huh

4th Year Biochemistry Major

The global warming debate is a big issue today as it is constantly the focus in mainstream media.  However, our goal is to present the facts objectively.  This allows the audience to learn both sides of the debate and to make up their own mind regarding global warming.

E-mail: mhuh@iit.edu

Jonathan Lockridge

5th Year Architecture Major

We had the opportunity to highlight architectural advances in solar design, which I personally enjoy because I plan specializing in “green architecture”.  I would like to show others the immense impact we can make, but in order to do so, we first have to learn about the technology.

Nim Patel

2nd Year Biochemistry Major

By making these presentations I hope to help clarify misconceptions about global warming, what it really is and what are the pros and cons to the possible solutions (biofuels, solar, wind power).

Carol Debiak

Adviser/Literature Consultant

Carol DeBiak is the Mathematics and Science Librarian at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She assists with collection development at the Paul V. Galvin Library and is currently overseeing the acquisition of library material to support the study at IIT of both global warming and energy sustainability. As a docent at the Field Museum of Natural History, she has been communicating with the public about the history of climate change at exhibits such as “Evolving Planet” and “Nature Unleashed”.  An objective at the museum and with the current IPRO is the assist the public in comprehending the concepts of global warming and climate change.

Peter Lykos

Faculty Adviser/Professor of Chemistry

Professor of Chemistry, is the most senior member of the

IIT faculty (since Fall, 1955). Per his website (www.iit.edu/~lykos)

you may know something of the broad range of contributions he has made to IIT (for example see the three activities in the Stuart Bldg that he created). As an early participant in the IPRO system, his contributions to improving the interface between the IPRO General Education requirement and the normal academic structure of IIT earned him the first IPRO Lifetime Achievement Award in May 2008. His focus on Global Warming and Community Outreach (and subsequent creation of the new course, Chemistry 410, Science of Climate Change) demonstrates his reach across the entire campus in enabling interested students to gain a non trivial perspective on the GW phenomenon and on the related Energy Sustainability: the first such at IIT. The objective is to coordinate the course, with its production and maintenance of resource materials in each of the important subtopics in GW, together with the IPRO outreach effort, in order to assist the educated layperson better comprehend why GW is happening and what might be done to ameliorate the less desirable consequences; a much needed social service that IIT is well positioned - through its students - to deliver.

E-mail: lockjon@iit.edu

E-mail: npate45@iit.edu

E-mail: debiak@iit.edu

E-mail: lykos@iit.edu

Global Warming & Community Outreach