Tepper School of Business
Tepper Alumni Network
Alumni Events
| Date | Details |
| November 17, 2009
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Alumni Reception on Global Climate Change with Professor and Former NASA Astronaut, Dr. Jay Apt Location: The University of Texas at Dallas School of Management Sponsored by the Tepper School of Business Dallas Alumni Chapter Speaker: Dr. Jay Apt, Executive Director of Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Associate Research Professor, Distinguished Service Professor in Engineering and Public Policy  You are invited to join us for an informative and interactive discussion on "Why Climate Is Changing And What We Can Do About It" hosted by Tepper Professor and former NASA astronaut, Dr. Jay Apt, on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at The University of Texas at Dallas School of Management. The reception will begin at 6:00 p.m. followed by Dr. Apt's presentation at 7:00 p.m. Professor Jay Apt received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1971 and a Ph.D. in experimental atomic physics from from MIT in 1976. He was selected as a NASA Astronaut in 1985, and has spent more than 35 days in space on four Space Shuttle missions, and performed two space walks (one an emergency rescue of a satellite). He has been to the Russian space station Mir, and is the recipient of NASA’s highest medal. He received the Metcalf Lifetime Achievement Award for significant contributions to engineering in 2002. A close colleague of Dr. Lester Lave, Dr. Apt is Executive Director of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business and the Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Engineering and Public Policy, where he is a Distinguished Service Professor. His research, teaching and consulting interests are in economics, engineering, and public policy aspects of the electricity industry, economics of technical innovation, management of technical enterprises, risk management in policy and technical decision framing, and engineering systems design. The event is being organized by the Tepper Dallas Alumni Chapter and the Carnegie Mellon Alumni Chapter of Dallas. All Carnegie Mellon alumni are invited to attend and may bring guests. Light refreshments will be served and attire is business casual. Alumni and their guests are asked to RSVP online at: www.tepper.cmu.edu/alumni/dal. The registration charge is $10.00 for alumni who pay in advance and $20.00 at the door. For more information, contact our alumni organizer: Rick Thornton (MSIA/TPR '95) at: jrthornton4@gmail.com. Directions: The University of Texas at Dallas School of Management, 800 West Campbell Road Richardson, TX 75080-3021 Cost: Registration - Advance Payment: 10.00 Registration - On-site Payment: 20.00 |
