Sustainability Seminar Series

Stevens Center for Sustainability / Sustainability Seminar Series

A field of windmills against a hazy blue sky.The Hugo Neu Corporation Sustainability Seminar Series is a weekly lecture organized by the sustainability management master's program. The series will host eleven speakers in the Fall 2025 semester. It is sponsored by the Hugo Neu Corporation, jointly sponsored by WSP, HDR, and NOMADICS, and co-sponsored by Brown and Caldwell, Dewberry , and H2M Architects and Engineers.


2025 Fall Sustainability Seminar Series

The seminar series takes place on Tuesdays between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. Attendance is free. The series will be offered as a live webcast via Zoom.

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September 9

Joshua Gillespie, AICP | Environmental Sciences & Planning NY & NJ Lead, HDR

The Challenges and Benefits of New York State’s Offshore Wind Energy Program

September 16

Sharon Udasin | Author

Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America

September 23

Dave Nowak, LEED AP, ENV SP | Senior Project Scientist, Dewberry

From Data to Decarbonization: Tackling the Big Apple’s Carbon Footprint

September 30

Vincent Caliguire, NJDEP

Dr. Vaishali Kushwaha, PhD

Khalid Mustafa

From Overburdened Communities to Green Careers: Inside NJDEP’s Youth Inclusion Initiative (YII)

October 7

Jennifer DiPilato | Brown & Caldwell

Topic: TBD

October 21

Breanna Horne, CHMM, ENV SP, WEDG, WELL AP, Fitwel Ambassador | Vice President / Principal / National Director of Resilience

Integrating Resilience and Sustainability in Transit Infrastructure: A Proactive Design Approach

October 28

Rachel Kim, P.E. | Senior Project Engineer, H2M architects + engineers

Sustainable Remediation and ESG

November 4

Jennifer M. Coffey | Executive Director, ANJEC

New Jersey Protecting Against Climate Threats (NJPACT): Integrating Climate Science Into Land Use Planning

November 11

Stephen Crocco | TYLin

Caden Stott | Tetra Tech

SM 2025 Individual Capstone Project

November 18

Steven Eget, PE | Sr. Vice President, WSP USA

Peter Sutherland, | Vice President, WSP USA

Rup Deka | Consultant- Automation & AI, WSP USA

Current and Future Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Environmental and Sustainability Fields

December 2

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Dominique Lueckenhoff

Hugo Neu Corporation

Topic: TBD

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Watch Our Seminars on YouTube

View the recordings of our past seminars on the Schaefer School of Engineering and Science's YouTube channel.