2026 Energy Transition Symposium at UMass Amherst
April 10th, 2026 | Marriott Center, Campus Center | UMass Amherst
The UMass Energy Transition Institute, ELEVATE program, School of Earth & Sustainability, and Integrated Concentration in STEM (iCons) program cordially invites you to a our 2026 Energy Transition Symposium with keynote speaker Secretary Rebecca Tepper of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
Rebecca Tepper has served as the Secretary of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs since her appointment by Governor Maura Healey in 2023. Secretary Tepper oversees the agencies charged with facilitating the clean energy transition, improving resilience to climate change, safeguarding Massachusetts’ natural resources, and providing access to the outdoors. In this role, she successfully brokered a compromise to speed up clean energy siting and permitting practices, established new programs to protect communities from inland and coastal flooding, boosted investment in Massachusetts’ climatetech and offshore wind industries, and significantly strengthened regional ties to advance New England’s energy independence. Throughout these efforts, she’s led with an environmental justice lens and a focus on lowering costs for Massachusetts residents and businesses.
About the Symposium
The Energy Transition Symposium presents innovative research related to the needs, challenges, and opportunities of creating a just energy transition in Massachusetts, the United States and beyond. Secretary Rebecca Tepper's keynote address will be followed by poster sessions featuring clean energy, energy equity, sustainability, and climate resilience research by graduate and undergraduate students from UMass and surrounding colleges. The symposium is free and open to the public.
Schedule
2:30 - 3:30 pm | Welcoming Remarks and Keynote by MA EEA Secretary Rebecca Tepper
3:30 - 4:15 pm | Research Poster Session 1
4:15 - 5:00 pm | Research Poster Session 2
To attend or present a poster, please register here. If you have any questions or would like to request information about participating in the poster session please email jstarr@umass.edu and zgetmanp@umass.edu