Jay Apt, a former astronaut, can do everything from quantifying a hurricane’s catastrophic risk to gauging offshore wind power to scrutinizing clean-energy efforts such as geothermal power generation. The Carnegie Mellon professor wants the planet he saw once from outer space to be just as beautiful and just as healthy for generations to come.
Mark Kamlet, CMU’s provost, not only oversees research on the academic side of campus, but also puts his expertise in healthcare economics to use by helping the university establish the Disruptive Health Technology Institute, a place that will focus on bringing better health care where its most needed.
It’s these kinds of efforts that demonstrate why both men were elected by their peers to be among the newly named fellows in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest, most prestigious general scientific society.
—Elizabeth Shestak (DC’03)
