MAE's Robert Socolow Receives Keystone Award
June 10th Dr. Robert Socolow, MAE Professor, and Co-Director, The Carbon Mitigation Initiative will receive the Keystone Award for Leadership in the Environment. Awardees have contributed to society in ways that reflect the spirit and misstion of The Keystone Center and have demonstrated a history of achievement with a strong send of vision, a proven ability to motivate others, dedication to teamwork and consensus, and the drive and ability to initiate fundamental and long-term positive change. He joins award winners for Leadership in Industry, Michael Duke, President and CEO of Wal-Mart Store; Leadership in Education, Honorable Terrance Carroll; Leadership in Goverment, Honorable John McCain; and the Spirit of Keystone Award, Gwen Ifill, Managing Editor, Washington Week.
Robert Socolow, a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. His current research focuses on global carbon management and fossil-carbon sequestration. He is the co-principal investigator (with ecologist, Stephen Pacala) of Princeton University's Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI), www.princeton.edu/~cmi/, a fifteen-year (2000-2015) research project supported by BP and Ford. Under CMI, Princeton has launched new, coordinated research in environmental science, energy technology, geological engineering, and public policy.
Pacala and Socolow are the authors of “Stabilization wedges: Solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies” (Science, August 13, 2004). Socolow is on two current committees of the National Academies: “America's Energy Future” and “America's Climate Choices” and was a member of the Grand Challenges for Engineering Committee of the National Academy of Engineering. He was the editor of Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, 1992-2002.
Socolow was awarded the 2003 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award by the American Physical Society: “For leadership in establishing energy and environmental problems as legitimate research fields for physicists, and for demonstrating that these broadly defined problems can be addressed with the highest scientific standards.
