{"id":6088,"date":"2014-04-03T12:43:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T19:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2014-04-03T12:43:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T19:43:29","slug":"millie-dresselhaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/millie-dresselhaus\/","title":{"rendered":"Millie Dresselhaus on Energy Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uctv.tv\/shows\/27708\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6072\" alt=\"766\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/\/rokupicts\/27708.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> UCTV&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/uctv.tv\/women%2Din%2Dscience\/\">Women in Science<\/a> kicks off the month of April by celebrating an influential woman in the scientific field, MIT Professor Mildred Dresselhaus.<\/p>\n<p>A pioneer in Nanoscience, Dresselhaus is one of the first scientists to open the door to using carbon based materials on a nanoscale. Some of her notable contributions paved the way for modern day carbon nanotubes and nanoscale thermoelectricity.<\/p>\n<p>Dresselhaus&#8217; current career has focused on advancing science and engineering in its more basic aspects, as well as advancing energy sustainability.<a href=\"http:\/\/uctv.tv\/shows\/Millie-Dresselhaus-Personal-Perspectives-on-Advancing-Energy-Sustainability-27708\"> In a recent talk at UC Santa Barbara<\/a>, Dresselhaus discusses the world energy outlook and sustainability, nanostructures and recent advances in thermoelectrics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The take-home message here, is that it&#8217;s not a bad idea to try to make the world a better place, when called upon to do so,&#8221; Dresselhaus mused.<\/p>\n<p>To watch Dresselhaus and more notable women in science, visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/uctv.tv\/women%2Din%2Dscience\/\">Women in Science<\/a> page at UCTV. <\/p>\n<p>You can also subscribe to our Women in Science feed, available on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/itunes-u\/women-in-science-video\/id695164197?mt=10\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCTV&#8217;s Women in Science kicks off the month of April by celebrating an influential woman in the scientific field, MIT Professor Mildred Dresselhaus. A pioneer in Nanoscience, Dresselhaus is one of the first scientists to open the door to using carbon based materials on a nanoscale. Some of her notable contributions paved the way for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}