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Addressing Environmental Challenges: Lecturer Biographies
- Media and the Environment
Steve Curwood, Living on Earth, NPR
Steve Curwood is Executive Producer and Host of Living on Earth. Steve created the first pilot of Living on Earth in the Spring of 1990, and the show has run continuously since April, 1991. Today, Living on Earth with Steve Curwood is aired on more than 300 National Public Radio affiliates in the USA. Steve's relationship with NPR goes back to 1979 when he began as a reporter and host of Weekend All Things Considered. He also hosted NPR's World of Opera.
Steve has been a journalist for more than 30 years with experience at NPR, CBS News, the Boston Globe, WBUR-FM/Boston and WGBH-TV/Boston. He shared the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as part of the Boston Globe's education team. Steve Curwood is also the recipient of the 2003 Global Green Award for Media Design, the 2003 David A. Brower Award from the Sierra Club for excellence in environmental reporting and the 1992 New England Environmental Leadership Award from Tufts University for his work on promoting environmental awareness. He is president of the World Media Foundation, Inc. and a Lecturer in Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard University. He lives in Southern New Hampshire on a small woodlot with his wife Jennifer and children Noah and Amira, and loves whatever time he can get with his adult progeny, Anastasia and James.
 Power Sources for the Future
Prabhu K. Rao, PhD, Nuvera Fuel Cells
Prabhu Rao is a Vice President at Nuvera and leads its Product Development and Manufacturing activities. In addition to overseeing the company’s product development efforts, his primary responsibilities also involve cultivating strategic supplier relationships and sponsoring Nuvera’s Hydrogen product offerings.
Previously, Prabhu was the Manager of Transportation activities at Nuvera. During this time, his responsibilities included developing strategic business and technology relationships between Nuvera and automotive OEM's.
Prabhu holds a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India as well as masters’ degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Engineering and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University. He is keenly interested in environmental engineering, combustion related phenomena, emissions control, and chemical kinetics.
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