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LEO Member JP Pieper Wins Herbert L. Toor Award
LEO Ph.D. student JP Pieper was awarded the Herbert L. Toor Award for his Part A research. Congratulations, JP! About the award: The...

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Apr 151 min read
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CMU Energy Week tackles AI and energy
"Over three days, investors, entrepreneurs, and researchers explored how AI and energy can complement each other." Scott Institute...

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Apr 31 min read
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LEO Member Judy Sihyon Park Wins Second Place at the 2025 CMU Energy Week Poster Competition
Judy’s research titled “Mortality and Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Integrated Steelmaking in the United States” was one...

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Apr 31 min read
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LEO Member Jillian Miles Completes 8-Week Course at Pittsburgh Glass Center
LEO Ph.D. student Jillian Miles recently completed an 8-week "Intro to Stained Glass" course at the Pittsburgh Glass Center . Miles...

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Mar 181 min read
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Management practices and manufacturing firm responses to a randomized energy audit
Zhang, Da; Karplus, Valerie J. (2025). Management practices and manufacturing firm responses to a randomized energy audit. Nature Energy....

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Mar 121 min read
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To ensure energy audits help climate goals, target emissions
"Energy audits can be a useful tool for reducing industrial emissions, but new research co-led by Valerie Karplus found that clear...

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Mar 121 min read
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Accelerating green steel
The outcomes of the 2024 CMU Accelerating Green Steel Workshop, co-hosted on campus from November 13-14, 2024 by the Wilton E. Scott...

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Mar 121 min read
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2024 Accelerating Green Steel Workshop Proceedings
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation hosted a Research Workshop on Accelerating Green Steel at Carnegie Mellon University,...

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Mar 121 min read
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Beyond the Bottom Line: Assessing Non-Economic Barriers to Hydrogen Adoption
Read LEO member Dr. Ioana Iacob's Engineering and Public Policy Ph.D. thesis below.

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Feb 261 min read
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Looking back on 2024, the second year of the INDABA Partnership
The year 2024 was an exciting one for the Industrial Decarbonization Analysis, Benchmarking, and Action (INDABA) Partnership, a research...

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Feb 142 min read
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Feature Engineering to Embed Process Knowledge: Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking
Zhuo, Q.; Al-Harbi, M.N.; Pistorius, P.C. (2025). Feature Engineering to Embed Process Knowledge: Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of...

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Feb 121 min read
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2024 CMU Accelerating Green Steel Workshop Results in Two Collaborative Steel Industry Memos
Hosted on CMU's campus by the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and the Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research, the 2024...

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Jan 221 min read
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Technology, Institutions, and Organizational Performance in Public Health and Climate Change Contexts
Read LEO member Dr. Elina Hoffmann's Engineering and Public Policy Ph.D. thesis below.

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Jan 221 min read
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Operational Uncertainty in Blast Furnace CO2 Emissions
Dr. Elina Hoffman presented her research at the 2024 International Energy Workshop hosted in Bonn, Germany. Visit the link below to...

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Jan 221 min read
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Hubs: A step towards a hydrogen future?
Dr. Karplus's and Dr. Morgan's article for the journal Risk Analysis is the subject of this news piece published on October 25, 2024 by...

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Jan 221 min read
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Expanding renewable electricity use in global corporate supply chains
Sievert, K., Song, Y., Chen, Y., and Karplus, V.J. (2024), Environmental Research: Energy , Vol. 1, No. 3, July 2024. View the paper here

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Jan 221 min read
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The C-REM 4.0 model: A CGE model for provincial analysis of China’s carbon neutrality target
Hantan Peng, Chenfei Qu, Valerie J. Karplus, Da Zhang (2025), Energy and Climate Management , Vol. 1, Issue 1, March 2025. View the paper...

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Jan 221 min read
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How to sustain scientific collaboration amid worsening US–China relations
Valerie J. Karplus, Lan Xue, M. Granger Morgan, Kebin He, David G. Victor, Shuang-Nan Zhang (2024), Nature , 14 January 2025. View the...

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Jan 221 min read
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decarbSTEEL (Decarbonizing Steelmaking TechnoEconomic EvaLuation) Tool Version 2.0
Developed by LEO member Elina Hoffmann, LEO alumna Katie Jordan, and Valerie Karplus and P. Chris Pistorius, this model supports...

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Jan 221 min read
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New Funding to Support Work at CMU and WVU on the Workforce Impacts of Regional Energy Transition
Great news! "Biden-Harris Administration Through ARC Awards $16.9 Million to Grow Appalachia’s Infrastructure, Businesses, Workforce and...

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Sep 26, 20241 min read
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