Alison Cooke, chair of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Steering Group on Future Climate: Engineering Solutions, will discuss energy and climate change on April 24 in Sussman Theater at 7:15 p.m. She will discuss various efforts to address greenhouse gas mitigation and investigate the options from a social perspective, but through an engineering lens—looking at what opportunities are most realistic. The event is sponsored by the Drake University Environmental Science and Sustainability Department. It is free and open to the public.

— David Courard-Hauri, Environmental Science and Policy