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Xiaozhou Sean Zhou, Co-Founder and CEO, Greenore Technology Limited and former PhD Student in EEE Department and a Park Group Researcher, was selected as one of the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific

On August 17th, The U.S. Department of Energy announced $24 million in funding for nine research projects to explore and develop new methods of capturing and storing carbon from the air. One of the selected projects titled "From Structured Solvents to Hybrid Materials (SS2HM) for Chemically Selective Capture and Electromagnetic Release of CO2: Mechanisms, Stability and Interfaces" is led by Case Western Reserve University with Park Group awarded as a subrecipient. LCSE Director, Alissa Park, will lead the project at Columbia. 

Alissa Park delivers plenary at the 2019 Goldschmidt Conference titled "Towards Sustainable Energy and Environment: Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage"

PALISADES, New York — Peter Kelemen spends time in Oman looking for ways to pull carbon out of the air and put it back underground. His colleague, David Goldberg, looks at ways to store it far below the sea floor off the Oregon coast. Chemical engineer Alissa Park is working with steel mills in China to turn slag and waste carbon dioxide into reusable material.

The goal of all three Columbia University researchers — and thousands of other scientists and engineers globally — is to find ways to pull some of the carbon dioxide that’s causing global warming out of the atmosphere and store it away. It’s called carbon capture and storage, and experts increasingly say it’s going to be essential to saving the planet.

Read full story by Elizabeth Weiss from USA today here

www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/03/03/does-carbon-tax-credit-hold-key-fixing-climate-change