News Updates - 2012

Secretary Bryson visits Aquion Energy
Feb 2012

Commerce Secretary and former CEO John Bryson recently visited Pittsburgh to tour Aquion Energy, a Carnegie Mellon University spin-off and battery technology company founded by EPP professor Jay Whitacre.       http://bit.ly/xDAyUc

Schnitzer speaks at TEDxPittsburgh
Jan 2012

EPP doctoral student, Dan Schnitzer, recently spoke at the TEDxPittsburgh conference.  He is Founder and Executive Director of EarthSpark International which focuses on promoting the development of country--wide energy supply chains in Haiti.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C-LY9Qlr_0

Donahue elected 2012 AGU Fellow
Jan 2012

EPP professor, Neil Donahue has been elected 2012 American Geophysical Union Fellow.  Only one in a thousand members is elected to fellowship each year.  AGU is a nonprofit organization of geophysicists, consisting of over 50,000 members from over 135 countries. AGU's activities are focused on the organization and dissemination of scientific information in the interdisciplinary and international field of geophysics.

EPP alum Joe Pajer named CEO of ThinkLogical
Jan 2012

EPP alum Joe Pajer '83 has been named CEO of ThinkLogical a telecom-switching equipment maker.    http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/news22136.html 

Hendrickson appointed to serve on TRB
Jan 2012

EPP Professor, Chris Hendrickson, has been appointed to the executive committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), which provides expert advice on national transportation policy and leadership in transportation innovation.