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Howard Heinz
Endowment Taps EPP to Study Teens’ Environmental
Behavior
An interdisciplinary
team from EPP’s Center for Integrated Study of the
Human Dimensions of Global Change recently received a
grant from the Howard Heinz Endowment to explore how adolescents
think about the environmental implications of their consumption
decisions, and to investigate options for engaging teens
to make more environmentally conscious choices. The project
is focusing on choices under teens’ immediate control,
such as their purchases of consumer products, their patterns
of transportation use, and their diets. In-depth one-on-one
interviews with teens will provide insight into how adolescents
frame their consumption decisions vis-avis the environment.
The team includes Baruch Fischhoff (SDS/ EPP), Keith Florig
(EPP), and Nick Shorr (EPP). Other contributors to the
project include Karen Berntsen (Design), a specialist
in the design of educational materials; Wändi Bruine
de Bruin (SDS), an expert in teen decision making; Isabella
Cederquist, President of Carnegie Mellon Sustainable Students;
and Paulette Johnson, Director of the Center for Environmental
Education at Slippery Rock University.
Where
Are They Now?
EPP - Ph.D.
Graduate - 1996
Prof. Jean Camp
Department of Informatics
Indiana University
1031 Eigenmann
Bloomington, IN 47405
(812) 856-1865; ljeanc@gmail.com
In fall 2004, Jean Camp started as an Associate Professor
of Informatics, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
and of Telecommunications, and Assistant Director of
the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana
University. She is developing undergraduate, masters
professional programs, and a concentration of the PhD
in Cybersecurity. Officially she is an Associate
Professor on leave from Harvard's Kennedy School. Her
second book, Economics of Information Security , is
available from Springer.
ChemE/EPP B.S. Graduate - 1994
Karl A. Thomas, Executive Director
Friends of the Riverfront, Inc.
33 Terminal Way
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
(412) 488-0212; karl@friendsoftheriverfront.org
In November 2003, Karl Thomas left an eight-year career
with Michael Baker Corp. in project management to head
up Friends of the Riverfront, a grass roots non-profit
dedicated to the restoration of Pittsburgh's riverfronts.
In his new position, Karl is bringing private sector technology
to the Friends' 15-year tradition of being at the forefront
of regional riverfront trail development. He is also testing
his hand at national sports management planning the 8th
annual Pittsburgh Triathlon and Adventure Race, founded
by Friends of the Riverfront. |
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T&PP
Ph.D. Consortium Gathers in Cambridge, UK
The third annual meeting
of graduate students and faculty from the world’s
leading academic programs in technology and policy was held
at Cambridge University in the UK on June 28- 29. The meeting
provided an opportunity for 21 graduate students from participating
universities to present papers on their research. The meeting
was attended by five graduate students from EPP: Seth Blumsack,
Matt Oravetz, Dalia Patiño-Echeverri, Sarah Ryker,
and Claudio Wolter. Sarah Ryker received the best paper
award.
The conference dinner
was held in the mideval meeting hall of Peterhouse College
with an after dinner talk by Prof. David Cope, Director
of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.
The meeting was hosted
by the MPhil program in Technology Policy in the Judge Institute
of Management. This program has been developed as part of
the Cambridge-MIT Institute, a strategic alliance between
the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
Bill Nuttall, the physicist
who directs the Cambridge MPhil program, explains that it
“provides students with backgrounds in Engineering
or Science with the knowledge and skills required to provide
competent leadership in the development and deployment of
technology.” Details on the Mphil program are available
at http://www.jims.
cam.ac.uk/programmes/mphil_techpol/
mphil_techpol_f.html.
Beyond the formal presentation of research papers, the annual
meeting
provides graduate students and faculty
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an opportunity to build formal and informal ties.
MIT will host the meeting of the Consortium in 2005.
The 2006 meeting will be hosted by the Instituto Superior
Técnico in Portugal
and the 2007 meeting will be held at Carnegie Mellon. |
| EPP Ph.D.
student, Seth Blumsack, mastered the art of punting
quickly but found it handy to have an experienced
canoeist on board in occasional tight spots. |
EPP Senior Staff Active in Research
Administrators
Barbara Bugosh, Assistant
Director of the Human Dimensions of Global Change Center
and the new Climate Decision Making Center, has received
her certification as a Research Administrator (CRA) joining
Denise Murrin Macey, Business Manager in EPP, and 20 other
Carnegie Mellon staff. In August, Denise Murrin Macey was
elected President of the Allegheny Chapter of the Society
of Research Administrators. She organized the August meeting
of the chapter which has approximately 120 members.
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