http://www.epp.cmu.edu/feeds/blurbs.php?s=news Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Engineering and Public Policy en EPP Department Head and CCSReg Director Granger Morgan spoke to International Pittsburgh Coal Conference attendees at the Westin Convention Center, Downtown Pittsburgh on Sept 21 about the necessity for the US and coal industry to begin serious research on the use of "clean coal" to cut carbon diox... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2009#44 EPP and SDS professor Baruch Fischhoff will join conference discussion in an event hosted by Carnegie Mellon in celebration of the G-20 Pittsburgh Summit. The conference entitled, "Renewing Globalization in a Post-Crisis World: The Future of the G20 Agenda," with also feature other government, busin... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2009#43 On September 21, 2009, College of Engineering Dean Pradeep Khosla and University Professor and EPP Department Head M. Granger Morgan will host Newsweek/MSNBC Political Editor Howard Fineman and reporters from The Wall Street Journal and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for a discussion entitled: 'How Jou... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2009#40 Cliff Davidson, EPP and CEE professor and founding director of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Sustainable Engineering, has been organizing workshops globally to educate engineers and managers about the importance of engineering and sustainability. Click here for more.... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2009#41 EPP Department Head M. Granger Morgan was selected to receive the 2009 Distinguished Educator Award by the Society for Risk Analysis. The award will be presented during the SRA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland in December 2009. Warm congratulations to Granger from all of EPP!... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2009#42 Baruch Fischhoff, Howard Heinz University Professor in EPP/SDS, is the chair of a new National Research Council Committee on Behavioral and Social-Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security. Supported by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the committee ... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2009#35 Cliff Davidson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy, has been awarded Carnegie Mellon's William H. and Frances S. Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching for 2009. Congratulations, Cliff! ... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2009#33 On April 10, EPP/Computer Science Professor Lorrie Faith Cranor will participate in a presentation on study results of an evaluation of the effectiveness of email-based anti-phishing training messages and Carnegie Mellon University vulnerability. For more details, visit the April 2 issue of 8.5 x 1... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2009#36 EPP and ECE faculty Marija Illic has been named director of Carnegie Mellon's new Electric Energy Systems Group (EESG), initiating outreach and research to improve the nation's $26 billion electric energy system. Visit the EESG's website: http://www.eesg.ece.cmu.edu ... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2009#34 US Federal Communications Commisssion (FCC) appoints EPP/ECE Professor Jon Peha as Chief Technologist. Chief Technologist functions as senior advisor to the FCC chairman and commissioners on technology-related items. For more details, see The Institute article, "Mr. Peha Goes to Washington." A warm ... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2009#30 EPP Associate Professor Francisco Veloso won the Decision Sciences Institute's Stan Hardy Award for the “outstanding paper published in 2008 in the field of Operations Management” as co-author of the publication, "ISO 9000 practices and financial performance: A technology coherence per... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2009#37 Download the EPP Policy Brief "Cap and Trade is Not Enough: Improving US Climate Policy." ... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2009#38 EPP PhD candidate Vanessa Schweizer is lead coordinator of Carnegie Mellon's participation in the Pittsburgh 2009 "Focus the Nation" event held February 4-6. "Focus the Nation" aims to bring national attention to issues related to Climate Change. More details can be found in this February's issue of... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2009#31 Interdisciplinary research involving real-world problems. Topics and presentation schedules.... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2009#11 EPP faculty member Lester Lave testified before a US Senate Committee on an amendment requiring retail sellers of electricity to adopt renewable resources for percentages of their electric supply. Lave urged the committee to encourage competition of alternative technologies to achieve CO2 redu... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2008#32 EPP PhD graduate Jana Milford (EPP, 1988) has been promoted to the rank of full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Colorado.... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2008#26 History, EPP, and Heinz School Professor Joel Tarr is the winner of this year's Leonardo da Vinci Medal (The Piper, page 11) from the Society for the History of Technology. Carnegie Mellon is the only university to have two recipients of this prestigious award on faculty, as last year's winner... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2008#24 EPP PhD candidate Stephen Rose featured in Carnegie Mellon publication The Piper for his astonishing 880-mile hike from Greenville, South Carolina to Carnegie Mellon University. See page 8 of The Piper's October 2008 issue for full story, "target="_blank">"Back to School's a Hike for EPP Doctoral St... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2008#25 EPP PhD candidate Leonardo Reyes-Gonzalez and EPP Professor Francisco Veloso's paper "Evaluation of Mexican Research Groups in Physics using an Endogenous Approach" has won the Early Career Paper Competition in the 2008 Europe-Latin America Conference on Science and Innovation Policy. ... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2008#28 Carnegie Mellon University and EPP Professor Jon Peha are lead organizers of the "Broadband Census for America," a half-day conference about universal broadband data that will take place on September 26, 2008 in the AAAS Building in Washington DC (home of EPP's Washington Office). The aim of the co... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2008#27 EPP Post-Doctoral Fellow Constantine Samaras (EPP, 2008) placed second in the Student Poster Competition at the Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology for his poster, entitled: "Transforming the automotive fleet and the electricity system: A life cycle assessment of plug-in hybrid vehicles... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2008#29 Edward S. Rubin introduces 2008 Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speaker Al Gore on May 19 during the Commencement ceremony. Videos of both Professor Rubin's and former Vice President Gore's speeches are available.... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2008#23 The annual CIT Faculty Award winners have been announced for the 2007-2008 academic year. Among winners were EPP and MechE Professor Edward S. Rubin, who received the "Distinguished Professor of Engineering Award" and EPP and MechE Assistant Professor Jeremy Michalek, who recived the George Tallman ... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2008#21 The IPCC was a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Over the years several EPP faculty have been contributors to IPCC reports. Most recently Professor Ed Rubin (EPP/ME) was a lead author on the special report "Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage."... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2008#16 EPP and Mech E professor Edward S. Rubin was among recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize granted to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for work as lead author and coordinating lead author of the IPCC special report on carbon capture and storage. See the story from Carnegie Mellon ... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2008#22 Prof. Jim Corbett (EPP PhD, 1999) and several of his students and collaborators published two papers on air pollution from ocean going ships in the December 15 issue of Environmental Science and Technology. One, featured in the cover photo for the journal is titled "Mortality from Ship Emission... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2007#20 EPP and CEE Graduate Students Win Prestigious Contest Shahzeen Attari, Ines Margarida Lima de Azevedo, Benjamin Flath and Constantine Samaras won first-place in a letter-writing competition titled "Tomorrow's Energy Ambassadors, Managers and Scholars". The competition, sponsored by Johnson Controls... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2007#18 EPP PhD student Steve Sheng's Anti-Phishing Phil game was featured on the CMU home page... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2007#17 Paul Parfomak (EPP PhD 1996) featured in IEEE Spectrum piece "From Nerd to Wonk." See: Engineering from IEEE Spectrum.... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2007#15 EPP PhD Alumnae Felica Wu was awarded the Chauncey Starr Award for exceptional contributions to her field of study. Read more. ... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2007#19 Granger Morgan elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. ... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2007#13 MS in Engineering and Technology Innovation Management (ETIM) is a one-year, interdisciplinary professional Master's program in the College of Engineering, administrered by EPP.... http://www.epp.cmu.edu/news.php?year=2007#12