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Harvard Chairs
The Teresa and H. John Heinz III Foundation endows a chair in environmental policy at Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government and a professorship in environmental management at the Harvard Business School. Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy Currently, John P. Holdren is the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy. He is also affiliated with the School's Center for Science and International Affairs (CSIA), the director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Dr. Holdren has written extensively on environmental issues, including global environmental problems, energy and resource options in industrial and developing countries, and the consequences of population growth. He holds numerous additional honorary and professional positions, including:
Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management Currently, Richard Vietor is the Senator John Heinz Professor of the Environment at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Professor Vietor teaches courses on the regulation of business and the international political economy. Dr. Vietor received a B.A. in economics from Union College (1967), an M.A. in history from Hofstra University (1971), and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pittsburgh (1975). He was appointed Professor in 1984. Before joining the Business School in 1978, Professor Vietor held faculty appointments at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the University of Missouri. Professor Vietor has written extensively on business and government policy. And for his courses in business-government relations and environmental management, he has published more than three-dozen case studies on topics including:
To learn more about the Harvard Business School, visit http://www.hbs.edu/. Carnegie Mellon Chairs The Teresa and H. John Heinz III Foundation endows professorships in environmental engineering and cognitive psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. Mitchell J. Small H. John Heinz III Professor of Environmental Engineering Carnegie Mellon, 1982-. Interests Research in mathematical modeling and monitoring of environmental systems, uncertainty and risk. Education B.S. 1974, Carnegie Mellon University M.S. 1980, University of Michigan Ph.D. 1982, University of Michigan Research Activities Environmental Impact and Exposure Models Mathematical models are developed and applied for ground water contamination, surface water pollution, long-range atmospheric transport, indoor air pollution and integrated assessment of large, multidisciplinary problems. Indoor air pollution models are combined with human behavioral studies to develop integrated exposure models which consider both pollutant and human behavior in the environment. Projects in integrated assessment include studies of acid deposition and global climate impacts such as the effect of sea level rise on land use in coastal areas. Uncertainty in Risk Assessment Research is conducted on methods for characterizing uncertainty, its implications for regulatory decisions, and the value of information which can lead to reduced uncertainty and improved decision making. Bayesian statistical methods are applied to identify the impact of research and monitoring programs at various stages in an environmental health risk assessment. Robert S. Siegler Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences "The changes that occur in the first decade of life are among the most profound in the human lifetime. It is natural, therefore, for those interested in change to be interested in cognitive development. My research focuses on the growth during childhood of problem solving and reasoning skills. Three areas of particular interest are strategy choices, long-term learning, and educational applications of cognitive-developmental theory. The research on strategy choices focuses on how children decide which strategy to use from among the many strategies they know. My research indicates that even four-year-olds choose among alternative approaches in surprisingly intelligent ways. My colleagues and I have built computational models to illustrate how young children can make such intelligent decisions and also to show how the decisions change with changes in knowledge and skill. The research on long-term learning examines how children discover new strategies. Small numbers of children are given prolonged experience in solving problems. Videotapes and verbal protocols obtained immediately after each problem allow examination of the discovery, the circumstances leading up to the discovery, and the subsequent generalization of the discovery to new problems. The emphasis is on individual differences in patterns of learning as well as commonalities in the learning of different children. The research has yielded a number of educational implications, particularly in the area of early mathematics. It is being used to develop tests to identify young children who are at risk for later mathematical difficulties. We are also developing programs for preventing small, easy-to-remedy, early problems in mathematics from growing into large, intractable, later ones." Back to Top |
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