JONATHAN P. CAULKINS
Dr. Jonathan P. Caulkins, a professor of operations research and public policy, specializes in mathematical modeling of social policy problems and interventions. A member of the H. John Heinz III College’s School of Public Policy and Management since 1990, he is also a faculty member of Carnegie Mellon’s Qatar campus.
His research interests include policies concerning drugs, crime, violence, terrorism, delinquency, and prevention, as well as optimal dynamic control, and software quality and decision making. Dr. Caulkins has published more than 200 professional publications and is co-author of the recent books Drug Policy and the Public Good and Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes: With applications in drugs, corruption, and terror. He serves on advisory committees for the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the National Research Council in the U.S. and for Australia’s Drug Policy Modeling Program.
Dr. Caulkins was co-director of RAND’s Drug Policy Research Center and founding director of RAND’s Pittsburgh office. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in systems science from Washington University, and a master’s in electrical engineering and computer science and a Ph.D. in operations research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Among many honors, Dr. Caulkins received the Heinz College’s Martcia Wade Teaching Award, is a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and was a 2009 distinguished lecturer for the International Federation of Operational Research Societies. He received the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management’s Kershaw Award for distinguished contributions to the field, and he was selected by the National Academy of Engineering to participate in the 2008 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium of emerging leaders.
H. GUYFORD STEVER
H. Guyford Stever’s distinguished contributions to science and to his country included serving as chief science adviser to two U.S. Presidents and presiding over the formation of one of America’s great research universities.
Carnegie Mellon University’s H. Guyford Stever Professorship of Operations Research and Public Policy honors the lasting legacy of the personable and thoughtful scientist, who led the transformation of Carnegie Tech into a major research university.
By age 49, Stever had served as chief scientist for the U.S. Air Force and as head of two departments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1965, he moved to Pittsburgh with his wife, Louise, and their four children to become Carnegie Tech’s fifth president.
Two years later, President Stever guided the merger of Carnegie Tech and the Mellon Institute, and Carnegie Mellon University was born. His administration marked a period of tremendous growth for the university and promise for its future. Almost every year of his seven as president brought with it significant reorganization and new developments. One of these initiatives was the expansion of campus computing, which provided the groundwork for CMU’s revolutionary contributions to education and research in robotics, software engineering, and computer science.
In 1972, Stever was named director of the National Science Foundation. He served as a central figure in science policy and in the nation’s space program for many years.
In 2008, CMU renamed one of its dormitories Stever House. The Stever House, the first certified green dorm ever built in the U.S., stands as a fitting tribute to the man described as a “conscientious steward of the American scientific community.” |
