This fall the 91̽»¨’s annual engineering lecture series will feature three 91̽»¨engineers and scientists who are working across disciplines to manage the quality and quantity of the food we eat and grow.


This fall the 91̽»¨’s annual engineering lecture series will feature three 91̽»¨engineers and scientists who are working across disciplines to manage the quality and quantity of the food we eat and grow.

A new NSF-funded project will use findings in the Mekong River basin as an example of how three critical issues — feeding people, generating energy and maintaining functioning ecosystems — can be addressed thoughtfully and progressively in the developing world.

The 91̽»¨, Arizona State University and other collaborators have proposed a method in the Dec. 8 issue of Science that allows hydroelectric dam operators to generate power in ways that protect — and possibly improve — food supplies and businesses throughout the Mekong river basin in Southeast Asia.