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M. Granger Morgan To Receive Prestigious Award From Society for Risk Analysis

Morgan will receive the 2009 Distinguished Educator Award, given to a teacher, author or mentor who has contributed substantially to the training of new experts in risk analysis, during the society's annual meeting Dec. 8 in Baltimore.

Authority Rejects Mayor's Budget; Says Tuition Tax Doesn't Comply With Law

The state-picked Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority today unanimously rejected Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's budget, saying that the inclusion of $16.2 million he hopes to get from a tuition tax doesn't comply with state law.

Carnegie Mellon Customizing Electric Cars For Cost-Effective Commuting

Researchers at the Robotics Institute have converted a 2001 Scion xB into an electric commuter vehicle that will serve as a test bed for a new community-based approach to electric vehicle design, conversion and operations.

Drama Professors To Read From, Sign Copies of Their Books, Nov. 17

Janet Feindel released "The Thought Propels the Sound"; Michael Chemers released "Staging Stigma: A Critical Examination of the American Freak Show" in November 2008 and co-authored a new translation of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" earlier that year; and Wendy Arons is the author of "Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing: The Impossible Act."