Susan Hubbard headlines Discovery Park District Distinguished Lecture event

On April 29, the Discovery Park Distinguished Lecture series returned with its first event since 2019. Susan Hubbard, deputy laboratory director for science and technology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, spoke on water resilience in the 21st century at the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship.

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Hubbard oversees water-resilience research pursuing emerging technologies like AI and exascale computing to replace current, suboptimal technologies that predict watershed behaviors and responses to environmental and weather-related disturbances.

Hubbard’s talk, “A Watershed Moment: Propelling 21st Century Water Resilience,” addressed how growing populations and resource-intensive lifestyles are increasing demands for clean water, food and energy, while simultaneously, climate change, land-use shifts and extreme events like droughts, floods and wildfires are affecting water quality and availability.

The Discovery Park Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible by the Lilly Endowment as a mechanism for Purdue and Discovery Park District to bring the latest thinking about science and technology and other broad areas of public interest to campus.

Hubbard’s lecture was sponsored by the Lilly Endowment, the Institutes and Centers at Discovery Park District, the Institute for a Sustainable Future, and the College of Science.

For more information about future Discovery Park District Distinguished Lecture Series events, contact Mary Ann Bobillo at mbobillo@purdue.edu.