Valerie Karplus just published a new discussion paper entitled Sustaining the Global Energy Transition with the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. The paper considers the implications of high interest rates, trade tensions, and energy geopolitics for the deployment of technologies to decarbonize industries worldwide and argues for strategies that maintain momentum that are connected with objectives beyond climate alone.  View the paper here . A related LinkedIn post about

The Resilient Energy Technology and Infrastructure Consortium , led by a team at West Virginia University in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and over 60 regional partners, was selected on Sept. 18 as a finalist in the competition for a prestigious $160 million National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engines award. The LEO Group is involved in supporting the group’s R&D and policy engagement efforts to grow a vibrant energy

LEO Principal Investigator Valerie Karplus presented research and facilitated a hackathon at this year's Future of Heavy Industries USA...

The Laboratory for Energy and Innovation celebrated the graduation of three newly-minted PhDs in Engineering and Public Policy at CMU’s...

Read LEO member Dr. Joanna Slusarewicz's Engineering and Public Policy Ph.D. thesis below.

This year's Summer Academy for Math and Science (SAMS) program featured a dynamic College of Engineering master class and lab tour called...

Research by LEO group members Jillian Miles and Valerie Karplus, co-authored with Christophe Combemale and Chris Pistorius, on the...

" Thanks to a Sustainable Technologies for Steel Manufacturing Grant from the Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST), Carnegie...

"The adoption of decarbonized production methods in heavy manufacturing industries is widely considered a key step toward global climate...

On Friday, April 25th, LEO Ph.D. student JP Pieper and Professor Valerie Karplus participated in the 2025 Random Distance Run, hosted by...

Miles, Jillian; Combemale, Christophe; Karplus, Valerie J.; Pistorius, P. Chris (2025). Simulating regional workforce impacts of...

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

LEO Ph.D. student Jillian Miles recently completed an 8-week "Intro to Stained Glass" course at the Pittsburgh Glass Center . Miles...

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

"Energy audits can be a useful tool for reducing industrial emissions, but new research co-led by Valerie Karplus found that clear...

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

The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation hosted a Research Workshop on Accelerating Green Steel at Carnegie Mellon University,...

Read LEO member Dr. Ioana Iacob's Engineering and Public Policy Ph.D. thesis below.

Zhuo, Q.; Al-Harbi, M.N.; Pistorius, P.C. (2025). Feature Engineering to Embed Process Knowledge: Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of...

Hantan Peng, Chenfei Qu, Valerie J. Karplus, Da Zhang (2025), Energy and Climate Management , Vol. 1, Issue 1, March 2025. View the paper...