Faculty and Staff

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Faculty Fellow Dr. Christopher Higgins, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, presenting a hybrid seminar titled Forever Chemicals in our Water? The Growing Importance of Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Environmental Contaminants on Thursday, September 22, 2022 from […]

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Faculty Fellow Dr. Kathleen Hancock, Associate Professor of Political Science, Colorado School of Mines, Dr. Srinivas Parinandi, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado Boulder, and Dr. Jonas Nahm, Assistant Professor of Energy, Resources, and Environment at Johns Hopkins SAIS, […]

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Advisory Board Member Dr. Carole Nakhle, Founder and CEO Crystol Energy, presenting a virtual seminar titled Energy Crisis: How Did We Get Here, and What’s Next? on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 from 9:00am – 10:00am (MT). TOPIC: ENERGY CRISIS: HOW DID […]

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Mines Rick Tallman ’85, MS ’93 Founder and Partner Renova Capital, presenting a hybrid seminar titled An Unconventional Way to Drive the Energy Transition on Monday, October 24, 2022 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm (MT). TOPIC: AN UNCONVENTIONAL WAY TO DRIVE THE […]

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Dr. Sara Vakhshouri, Founder and President at SVB Energy International and SVB Green Access, presenting a virtual seminar titled Russia War: Energy & Food Security, Energy Transition, and Energy and Safe Water Access on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 from 11:00am […]

Please join Jeffries and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Brad Handler, Payne Institute Sustainable Finance Lab Program Manager, presenting a virtual seminar titled The Financial Mechanisms Around Coal Retirement on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 from 9:00am – 10:00am (MT). TOPIC: THE FINANCIAL MECHANISMS AROUND COAL RETIREMENT SPEAKER: BRAD HANDLER, PAYNE INSTITUTE SUSTAINABLE […]

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Chris Clack, Founder and CEO of Vibrant Clean Energy, LLC., presenting a hybrid seminar titled Economy-wide Decarbonization of the United States & Europe on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 from 11:00am – 12:00pm (MT). TOPIC: ECONOMY-WIDE DECARBONIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES & […]

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City as we welcome Morgan Bazilian, Director, Payne Institute, presenting a hybrid seminar titled Shifts in Energy Geopolitics – Clean Energy on Thursday, November 10, 2022 from 8:05am – 9:20am (MT). TOPIC:  SHIFTS IN ENERGY […]

Please join the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Payne Institute Earth Observation Group Director Dr. Christopher Elvidge, presenting a virtual seminar titled Monitoring Economic Activities Using Night Time Light Imagery: Innovation Over the Last 10 Years on Tuesday, January 17, 2023. TOPIC:  MONITORING ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES […]

Please the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Fellow Dr. William Nuttall, Professor of Energy, The Open University, presenting a virtual seminar titled Nuclear Renaissance – Second Addition on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 9:30am MT. TOPIC:  NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE – SECOND ADDITION SPEAKER: PAYNE INSTITUTE FELLOW DR. WILLIAM NUTTALL, PROFESSOR OF ENERGY, THE […]

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Dr. Gregory Brew,  Postdoctoral Fellow, Jackson School of Global Affairs, Yale University, presenting a virtual […]