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Feb

25

Social Equity & Racial Justice Seminar: Mimi Sheller

McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering

4:00 PM

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Mobility Justice as a Means of Pandemic Recovery and Sustainable Mobilities

Abstract

COVID-19 has drastically affected public transportation, driving down ridership by 90% in some cities and threatening its financial viability. At the same time, inequitable transport infrastructure and “transport racism” in the United States has driven racially uneven exposure to the coronavirus as well as sparking the Black Lives Matter protest movements. Unequal mobility regimes are the basis of racial and class-based inequities, health disparities, and segregation -- and has become a life-and-death issue. How can we recover from the pandemic mobility disruption in an equitable way that does not simply entrench these inequities more deeply? This talk will focus on the concept of “Mobility Justice” for challenging the forms of power and inequality that are embedded in the governance and control of all forms of movement. Control over mobility is a form of power that has deep historical roots in colonial racial capitalism. In the United States, both pandemic recovery and sustainable mobility transitions will only succeed if we can overcome the existing system of mobility inequities by designing, promoting, and funding more just mobilities.

Bio

Mimi Sheller, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology, Head of the Sociology Department, and founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities and past President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. As co-editor with John Urry of Tourism Mobilities (2004) and Mobile Technologies of the City (2006) and author of numerous highly cited articles, she helped establish the “new mobilities paradigm.” She is considered to be a key theorist in critical mobilities research and in Caribbean studies.

Sheller is author or co-editor of twelve books, including Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene (Duke University Press, 2020); Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Verso, 2018); Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (MIT Press, 2014); Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom (Duke University Press, 2012); Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies (Routledge, 2003); and Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (Macmillan Caribbean, 2000).

She was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from Roskilde University, Denmark (2015). She has received research funding from the National Science Foundation, the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Macarthur Foundation, the Mobile Lives Forum, and the Graham Foundation in Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

She has held Visiting Fellowships at the University of Miami (2019); the Annenberg School of Communication at University of Pennsylvania (2016); the Penn Humanities Forum (2010); the Center for Mobility and Urban Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark (2009); Media@McGill, Canada (2009); the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University (2008); and Swarthmore College (2006-2009)

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TIME Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

CONTACT Tierney Acott tierney.acott@northwestern.edu EMAIL

CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sep

20

CEE New Student Orientation

McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

8:00 AM A230, Technological Institute

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Orientation for new students to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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TIME Friday, September 20, 2024 at 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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CONTACT Andrew Liguori andrew.liguori@northwestern.edu EMAIL

CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

Sep

23

Welcome & Luncheon for New Full-time Graduate Students

McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

11:00 AM Ryan Auditorium, Technological Institute

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Enjoy a welcome from Dean Christopher A. Schuh and other McCormick leaders, and receive a Northwestern Engineering T-shirt. A free lunch on the Tech East Plaza will follow.

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TIME Monday, September 23, 2024 at 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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CONTACT Andi Joppie andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL

CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

Sep

24

Fall 2024 Classes Begin (No Northwestern Monday in Fall)

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All Day

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Fall 2024 Classes Begin (No Northwestern Monday in Fall)

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TIME Tuesday, September 24, 2024

CONTACT Office of the Registrar nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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Sep

27

EES Seminar- Nanqing Zhou

McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

2:00 PM A230, Technological Institute

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Title: Production of Nanoplastics and Bioavailable Carbons by Wastewater Comamonas

Abstract: Comamonadacae bacteria are enriched on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) microplastics in wastewaters and urban rivers, but the PET-degrading mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we investigated these mechanisms with Comamonas testosteroni KF-1, a wastewater isolate, by combining microscopy, spectroscopy, proteomics, protein modeling, and genetic engineering. Compared to minor dents on PET films, scanning electron microscopy revealed significant fragmentation of PET pellets, resulting in 3.5-fold increase in the abundance of small nanoparticles (< 100 nm) during 30-day cultivation. Infrared spectroscopy captured primarily hydrolytic cleavage in the fragmented pellet particles. Solution analysis further demonstrated double hydrolysis of a PET oligomer, bis-(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalate, to the bioavailable monomer terephthalate. Supplementation with acetate, a common wastewater co-substrate, promoted cell growth and PET fragmentation. Of the multiple hydrolases encoded in the genome, intracellular proteomics detected only one, which was found in both acetate-only and PET-only conditions. Homology modeling of this hydrolase structure illustrated substrate binding analogous to reported PET hydrolases despite dissimilar sequences. Mutants lacking this hydrolase gene were incapable of PET oligomer hydrolysis and had 25% decrease in PET fragmentation; re-insertion of the gene restored both functions. Thus, we have identified constitutive production of a key PET-degrading hydrolase in wastewater Comamonas, which can be exploited for plastics bioconversion.

Bio: Dr. Nanqing Zhou is a postdoctoral scholar working with Prof. Ludmilla Aristilde at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University. Dr. Zhou obtained her B.S. in Environmental Science and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China. She then obtained a doctoral degree in Marine Biosciences from the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on applying multi-omics approaches to unravel the metabolic network in biotechnologically relevant microbes using waste carbon sources.

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TIME Friday, September 27, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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CONTACT Andrew Liguori andrew.liguori@northwestern.edu EMAIL

CALENDAR McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

Sep

30

McCormick - Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

2:00 PM A230, Technological Institute

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TIME Friday, November 15, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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CONTACT Andrew Liguori andrew.liguori@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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