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Should ships in India switch to shore power?

A team of EPP researchers, led by Ph.D. candidate Priyank Lathwal and professor Granger Morgan, has answered an important question about the shipping industry for a rapidly modernizing India.

Should ships in India switch to shore power? (6.7.21)

Fischhoff authors NASEM report on communicating vaccine efficacy and effectiveness

Howard Heinz University Professor Baruch Fischhoff was the lead author on the NASEM rapid expert consultation report, “Understanding and Communicating about COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Equity.” The report's authors offer advice for leaders communicating to the public about vaccine efficacy, effectiveness, and equity.

Fischhoff authors NASEM report (4.28.21)

Air quality–related health damages of food

A new research paper from the University of Minnesota, with collaboration Peter Adams, Nick Muller, Spyros Pandis, Allen Robinson, and Peter Tschofen, shows how food production negatively impacts human health by increasing atmospheric fine particulate matter (PM2.5), and identifies ways to reduce these negative impacts.

AIR QUALITY–RELATED HEALTH DAMAGES OF FOOD (5.13.21)

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Rubin receives David P. Casasent Outstanding Research Award

Engineering & Public Policy Professor Ed Rubin has been awarded the 2021 David P. Casasent Outstanding Research Award. The award recognizes a CIT faculty member whose exceptional research contribution has enhanced CIT’s reputation globally and has received significant recognition from experts in the field.
Thursday, July 15, 2021

Muller's research featured in WESA

Lester and Judith Lave Professor Nicholas Muller’s recent research was featured by WESA in their article on Muller’s proposed “green interest rate.” In his recently released working paper, On the Green Interest Rate, Muller notes how environmental damage from climate change comes with economic costs.
Thursday, July 01, 2021

SCS Faculty, Ph.D. Student Named to MIT Technology Review’s 2021 Innovators Under 35 List

Virginia Smith, an assistant professor in the Machine Learning Department, and Priya Donti, a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy departments, have been named to MIT Technology Review’s prestigious annual list of Innovators Under 35.
Monday, June 07, 2021

Should ships in India switch to shore power?

A team of EPP researchers, led by Ph.D. candidate Priyank Lathwal, has answered an important question about the shipping industry for a rapidly modernizing India.
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

What's Left Out of Energy Models? You.

A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers led by Turner Cotterman, an Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) Ph.D. student, has shown that sustainably decarbonizing our energy system by 2050 will require us to change the way we model energy transitions and account for the role of public opinion.
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Air quality–related health damages of food

A new research paper from Nina Domingo and collaborators at University of Minnesota, with collaboration from EPP co-authors Peter Adams, Nick Muller, Spyros Pandis, Allen Robinson, Peter Tschofen and others, that was recently featured in The Washington Post, shows how food production negatively impacts human health by increasing atmospheric fine particulate matter (PM2.5), and identifies ways to reduce these negative impacts of agriculture.
Friday, May 07, 2021

Improving Cost Estimates For Low-Carbon Technologies

Professor Ed Rubin (EPP/MechE), together with a team of 13 other university, industrial, and governmental collaborators, has co-authored a newly released white paper providing comprehensive guidelines for the cost estimation of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and other low-carbon technologies that are crucial to combatting climate change.
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Fischhoff authors NASEM report on communicating vaccine efficacy and effectiveness

Howard Heinz University Professor Baruch Fischhoff was the lead author on the NASEM rapid expert consultation report, “Understanding and Communicating about COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Equity.” The report's authors offer advice for leaders communicating to the public about vaccine efficacy, effectiveness, and equity.
Thursday, April 22, 2021

Fischhoff discusses Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause

EPP Professor Baruch Fischhoff talks to WESA about the pause in the administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and how the tone of the messaging health officials impact the public’s reaction.
Wednesday, April 07, 2021

2021 Moonshot Award

A team of CMU researchers headed by Erica Fuchs has been selected to receive the 2021 CIT Moonshot Award. Their proposal targets the development of intellectual foundations, data, and tools required to identify and support strategic action by governments around technologies critical for ensuring the security, prosperity (including jobs) and welfare (including health, environments and equity) of all citizens.
Thursday, March 18, 2021

CMU and Pitt Launch Center Dedicated to Combating Extremist Hate

A new partnership between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh will study how extremist hate originates, then develop tools that inhibit hate’s creation, growth and destructive consequences. EPP FORE Systems Professor Lorrie Cranor will serve as co-director for the newly formed Collaboratory Against Hate – Research and Action Center.
Tuesday, March 09, 2021

How Texas electricity regulators can use markets to make the grid more reliable

EPP Visiting Professor Lynne Kiesling and Vernon Smith explore “How electricity regulators can use markets to boost reliability” in a new op-ed for the Dallas Morning News. In the piece, they argue that markets and regulations complement each other in enabling electric system resilience.
Friday, February 26, 2021

Cranor featured in The Guardian

Lorrie Cranor, the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy, and Director of CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS), was recently featured in The Guardian in their piece, The tyranny of passwords — is it time for a rethink?
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Morgan chairing congressional briefing on future of US electrical grid

Hamerschlag University Professor Granger Morgan will chair a briefing by a National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee that includes Dean Bill Sanders as they deliver a congressional briefing on “The Future of Electric Power in the U.S.,” followed by a public webinar.
Monday, February 22, 2021

Armanios honored in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

EPP Assistant Professor Daniel Armanios' professional and academic career was recognized in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in celebration of Black History Month. During his academic career, Armanios evolved into the highest academically honored undergraduate student in American college and university history.
Friday, February 19, 2021

Apt and Lavin publish op-ed in The Washington Post

EPP Professor Jay Apt and PhD student Luke Lavin published an opinion piece in The Washington Post in response to the widespread power outages in Texas due to the recent cold snap.
Thursday, February 18, 2021

The Risks of Communicating Extreme Climate Forecasts

Apocalypse Now? The all-too-common practice of making climate doomsday forecasts is not just bad science, it’s also a terrible way to communicate important information says CMU's David Rode and Paul Fischbeck.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Carley featured on Yahoo on disinformation

EPP Professor Kathleen Carley was quoted in Yahoo Finance about online disinformation and misinformation. Carley said trusted sources and authorities also need to take a page from the trolls and adversaries spreading disinformation and misinformation to better combat them.
Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Fischhoff featured on Stats + Stories

Engineering & Public Policy's Howard Heinz University Professor Baruch Fischhoff was recently featured on the Stats + Stories, a podcast series about the statistics behind the stories and stories behind the statistics. Fischhoff discussed decision making during the pandemic.
Thursday, January 21, 2021

Uber and Lyft increase average vehicle ownership in urban areas

In a recent study published in iScience a team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers led by EPP's Jeremy Michalek shows that on average, transportation network company entry into an urban area increases per-capita vehicle registrations by 0.7%, compared to what they would have been otherwise.
Thursday, January 14, 2021

New publication from Adams, Muller, Robinson, and Sergi

In their recently published paper, Optimizing Emissions Reductions from the U.S. Power Sector for Climate and Health Benefits, EPP alum Brian Sergi, along with EPP professors Peter Adams, Nick Muller, Allen Robinson, and former EPP professor Inês Azevedo, find that climate policy that incorporates health objectives can result in substantial additional benefits by prioritizing emissions reductions in places where health damages are greatest.   
Friday, January 08, 2021

Peter Adams appointed as Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering

Peter Adams, Head and Professor of Engineering and Public Policy and Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been appointed as a Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering. This professorship was endowed to honor an educator whose work has had a profound impact on the university, his or her academic field and society.