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EEM Newsletter Fall/Winter 2024/2025
EEMI's Second Seminar on Presidential Transition is Immensely Popular
On February 21, 2025, GW Engineering-based Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EEMI) conducted a hugely popular web-based seminar entitled “Guardrails of Governance: Legal and Administrative Resilience in Trump 2.0.” The webinar, which attracted more than 1,200 registered participants, was a follow-up to the December 18, 2024, webinar “Navigating the Trump 2 Deregulatory Agenda: Lessons from Environmental Officials in Trump 1.”
EEMI Reflects on Past Interactions with the Late President Jimmy Carter
President Jimmy Carter’s death at age 100 in December 2024 prompted reflections by several EEMI colleagues. Dr. Andras Simonyi, former Hungarian Ambassador to the United States, recalled a long conversation with President Carter and his decision to return the Crown of St. Stephen to the Hungarian people in 1978 – a crown that had been held by the U.S. since 1945.
News of EEM Students, Alumni and Faculty
EEM alumnus Mu Hu recently accepted a position as a Data Scientist at the Albemarle Corporation in Charlotte, NC. ALB is a lithium mining public company that supplies lithium ores and salts to battery manufacturers and automobile OEMs, an increasingly important resource for electric vehicles.
WTOP News Covers Professor Sklar’s Off-Grid, Zero Carbon Buildings
During the Fall-Winter 2024 semester, Washington DC’s WTOP News featured the off-grid buildings of EEMI’s Director of Sustainable Energy, Professor Scott Sklar. WTOP News, established in 1926, spans several media channels including broadcast, social media, and web.
EEMI Featured in INCOSE WMA Presentation
On November 13, 2024, the GW Environmental and Energy Management Institute was showcased in a presentation at a conference of the Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter of INCOSE – an organization dedicated to advancing systems engineering principles worldwide.
EEMI Conducts Hugely Popular Webinar on Protecting the Environment in the Upcoming Presidential Administration
EEMI recently hosted a webinar focusing on strategies to protect the environment under the forthcoming presidential administration.