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EEMI's Second Seminar on Presidential Transition is Immensely Popular
February 24, 2025
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, EEMI-produced webinar entitled “Navigating the Trump 2 Deregulatory Agenda: Lessons from Environmental Officials in Trump 1” (https://eem.engineering.gwu.edu/eemi-conducts-hugely-popular-webinar-protecting-environment-upcoming-presidential-administration).
EEMI Reflects on Past Interactions with the Late President Jimmy Carter
February 24, 2025
President Jimmy Cater’s death at age 100 in December 2024 prompted some reflections and reminiscences by several EMMI colleagues. Dr. Andras Simonyi, former Hungarian Ambassador to the United States, recalled a long conversation with President Carter, followed by Carter’s decision to return the Crown of St. Stephen to the Hungarian people in 1978, which had been held by the U.S. since the end of World War II in 1945.
News of EEM Students, Alumni and Faculty
February 22, 2025
EEM alumnus Mu Hu recently accepted a position as a Data Scientist at the Albemarle Corporation, based in Charlotte, NC. ALB is a lithium mining public company in the U.S. that sells lithium ores and salts to battery manufacturers or automobile OEMs; lithium being an extremely important material for electric vehicle batteries.
WTOP News Covers Professor Sklar’s Off-Grid, Zero Carbon Buildings
February 22, 2025
During the Fall-Winter 2024 semester, Washington DC’s WTOP News covered the very popular off-grid buildings of EEMI’s Director of Sustainable Energy Professor Scott Sklar (https://eemi.engineering.gwu.edu/sklar-scott). WTOP News, established in 1926, includes an array of news outlets in the Washington DC region, including several ratio stations, social media outlets such as its Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and a popular website.
EEMI Featured in INCOSE WMA Presentation
February 17, 2025
On November 13, 2024, the GW Environmental and Energy Management Institute was featured in a presentation to a conference of the Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). INCOSE is a not-for-profit membership organization founded to develop and disseminate the transdisciplinary principles and practices that enable the realization of successful systems in the interest of developing the global community of systems engineers and systems approaches to problems.
EEMI Conducts Hugely Popular Webinar on Protecting the Environment in the Upcoming Presidential Administration
December 30, 2024
EEMI Conducts Hugely Popular Webinar on Protecting the Environment in the Upcoming Presidential Administration
GW and Chinese Colleagues Discuss Low Carbon Development
October 20, 2024
On September 16, 2024, members of the GW Engineering’s Environmental and Energy Management Institute (EEMI) met with colleagues from the International Fund for China’s Environment (IFCE) and the Chinese Electric Power Development Association to discuss approaches to low carbon development in China.
EEMI Conducts Climate Change Seminar
September 26, 2024
On Monday, September 16, 2024, the GW Engineering-hosted Environmental Energy Management Institute conducted a web-based seminar on climate change featuring Dr. Chris Greig, a tenured professor at Princeton University.
EEMI Conducts State-of-the-Art Webinars on Worldwide Environmental and Energy Issues in the Spring-Summer 2024 Semesters
September 6, 2024
During the Spring-Summer 2024 semester, EEMI presented four outstanding webinars in its EEMI Distinguished Lecture Series under the direction of EEMI Director of Professional Education Dr. Edward Saltzberg.
EEMI Hosts U.S. State Department Delegation from Kazakhstan Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources
September 6, 2024
On May 21, 2024, EEMI hosted a US State Department-sponsored delegation from Kazakhstan. The delegation was visiting the US on the topic “Best Practices for Developing National Air Quality Standards” under the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program. The delegates were visiting the US to meet with experts on air quality standards to learn how standards are determined, how air quality is monitored, the debate about regulations, and the impact of air quality on health.
Recent News of EEM Students, Graduates and Faculty
August 26, 2024
2006 EEM Ph.D. graduate Dr. Michael Helwig has been appointed as a full-time Associate Teaching Professor at the Colorado School of Mines starting with the Fall 2024 semester. After earning his Ph.D. at GW, Dr. Helwig worked as a research analyst at The Institute for Defense Analyses, as a senior engineer for the National Renewable Energy Lab, and as an instructor at Iowa State University and Kansas State University.
EEMI Executive Director Presents Keynote Address at ASEE Conference
August 26, 2024
EEMI Executive Director Dr. Jonathan Deason served as the keynote speaker at the Spring 2024 American Society for Engineering Education’s (ASEE) Middle Atlantic Section (MAS) Conference on April 20, 2024.