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In the News (Fri 1 Jan 10)

  
  CMU retains Cohon as president
Trustees at Carnegie Mellon University have reappointed Jared Cohon to a second five-year term as president, citing his vision and leadership as reasons for their decision.
Cohon also pointed to a June 2001 study of 117 campuses by the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute in which Carnegie Mellon was identified as one of several schools that showed the most significant positive changes in the undergraduate program between 1989 and 1998.
Cohon and University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark Nordenberg are co-chairmen of that consortium and the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse, a venture with a similar mission for the information technology sector.
www.post-gazette.com /localnews/20020521cmu0521p9.asp   (457 words)

  
 Johns Hopkins Gazette | April 18, 2005
Jared L. Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon University and a former Johns Hopkins faculty member, will deliver the Carolyn and Edward Wenk Jr.
Cohon's talk, "Technology and Politics: The Case of Nuclear Waste in America," will begin at 3 p.m.
Prior to his appointment as president of Carnegie Mellon in 1997, Cohon was dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale.
www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2005/18apr05/18cohon.html   (341 words)

  
 Carnegie Mellon Magazine-- President Jared Cohon Favors Persuasion over Issuing Orders
Cohon is closely associated with one of the university's strategic priorities, diversity.
To Cohon it is small consolation that Carnegie Mellon was not hit as hard as others were because of the relatively small size of its $756.9 million endowment, as of June 30, 2001.
Cohon's ability to take a strong position was noted in the Jan. 31 edition of the Las Vegas Sun, which covered a meeting of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board in Nevada.
www.cmu.edu /magazine/02fall/carrot.html   (3771 words)

  
 WQED Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Mag: January 2002
Jared Cohon and Mark Nordenberg are turning CMU and Pitt into collaborators, and Pittsburgh into a competitor.
Jared Cohon, then dean of Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, had just been named the next president of Carnegie Mellon University when they arrived.
The reserved Cohon's background is down-to-earth civil engineering, and the gregarious Nordenberg's is the abstract world of law.
www.wqed.org /mag/articles/0102_pghers.html   (931 words)

  
 Resume of Jared L. Cohon
Cohon is president of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Cohon is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, the American Water Resources Association, and the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Cohon began his teaching career in 1973 at Johns Hopkins University, where he served as assistant, associate, and full professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering and as Assistant and Associate Dean of Engineering and Vice Provost for Research.
www.nwtrb.gov /board/cohon.html   (408 words)

  
 Trustees Reappoint President Jared Cohon to Second Term
The committee praised Cohon for creating and nurturing a healthy, collegial academic environment, his ability to encourage innovation, creativity and teamwork, his temperament and drive, his management and leadership skills, and for providing an effective external voice for the university.
Cohon and University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark Nordenberg were named "Pittsburghers of the Year" in 2001 by Pittsburgh Magazine for their initiatives to bolster the economic development of the region.
Cohon and Nordenberg are co-chairs of the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, a consortium aimed at building the region's biotechnology industry and adding 5,000 new jobs, and the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse, which has a similar mission for the information technology sector.
www.cmu.edu /cmnews/020621/020621_reappointed.html   (598 words)

  
 Carnegie Mellon President Jared L. Cohon Receives Engineering Society's Metcalf Award
Carnegie Mellon University President Jared L. Cohon received the Engineering Society of Western Pennsylvania's (ESWP) William Metcalf Award for outstanding contributions to the field of engineering Feb. 22 at the Sheraton Station Square.
In addition to his academic experience, Cohon served in the late 1970s as legislative assistant for energy and environment to the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY).
Cohon started his teaching and research career in 1973 at Johns Hopkins University, where he was a faculty member for 19 years in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering.
www.cmu.edu /cmnews/extra/060220_cohon.html   (518 words)

  
 CMU opens campus, hearts, to environmental reporters - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
With the sparkle of the Fifth Avenue cityscape behind him, Cohon asked he crowd on how many of them were visiting Pittsburgh for the first time.
Cohon told the reporters that the former buckle in America's rust belt is a lot cleaner and greener now than a few decades ago, and urged them to explore the city and find out for themselves.
Cohon took the time, however, to single out one favorite son, TV star Ted Danson, CMU class of 1972, who was appearing at an SEJ forum on celebrities and the environment.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_264211.html   (269 words)

  
 Cooperation Must Flow to Cleanse Pittsburgh Region's Water
Jared Cohon chairs the Steering Committee of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development.
Financing water quality improvements will not be easy given the magnitude of the problems, the report acknowledges, recommending that in choosing among strategies yielded by the CWARP process, organizations should let cost-effectiveness be their primary guide.
Although the challenges of solving the region's water quality problems are many, Cohon that says as the region solves its own problems it can lead the entire nation towards cleaner water.
www.ens-newswire.com /ens/jan2005/2005-01-07-03.asp   (1183 words)

  
 ITRI Lab@CMU
Jared Cohon, VP of Univ. Advancement Robbee Kosak, Taiwan Pres.
Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian greeted Carnegie Mellon President Jared Cohon and other delegates, including Provost Mark Kamlet, ECE Department Head Pradeep Khosla, and Professor Tsuhan Chen, Director of the "ITRI Lab@CMU," at the Presidential Office in Taipei.
Cohon agrees with Taiwan's effort on investing in education and research, and he expressed hope that CMU will further increase academic exchanges with Taiwan's academic, industrial and government sectors.
www.ece.cmu.edu /~jonesc/ITRI/news/index.php   (539 words)

  
 WQED Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Mag: January 2002
Cohon says he and Nordenberg hatched the idea of combining their universities' strengths and formally collaborating on biotech development about three years ago.
Cohon heads up the Southwestern Pennsylvania Water and Sewer Infrastructure Project, which is exploring means of improving the region's water and sewer systems.
Nordenberg is telling Cohon how he told the Cornerstones Symposium about the time Cohon told the smoker crowd that he was Nordenberg, and how Nordenberg then told the symposium attendees that he was Cohon.
www.wqed.org /mag/articles/0102_pghers_2.html   (2134 words)

  
 Robotics Institute - 25th Anniversary - Grand Challenges of Robotics Symposium Speaker's Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jared Cohon has been president of Carnegie Mellon University since 1997.
Cohon earned a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969 and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973.
In recognition of the last of these, President Cohon shared “Pittsburgher of the Year” honors in 2001 with Mark Nordenberg, the Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh.
www.ri.cmu.edu /events/25th/speaker_bios.html   (3713 words)

  
 Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jared Cohon became Carnegie Mellon University's eighth president on July 1, 1997, after 25 years in faculty and administrative positions at Yale University and Johns Hopkins University.
Cohon's research and teaching have focussed on environmental and natural resources management, especially the development and application of mathematical models to support decision-making.
Cohon was appointed Chairman of the Board in January, 1997 and reappointed in July, 1999.
www.sigmaxi.org /meetings/archive/meet.2000.nom.pres.shtml   (1511 words)

  
 : Outside Experts : : Jared Cohon (3/1/04) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com
ared Cohon is president of Pennsylvania's Carnegie Mellon University, and he chairs the Academe and Policy Research Senior Advisory Committee within the president's Homeland Security Advisory Council.
He and his panel will also ensure that the university sector is heard when officials are debating such security measures as additional visa restrictions on foreign students, and restrictions on the easy exchange of information among leading-edge researchers, he said.
When he was governor of Pennsylvania, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge worked with Cohon and other university leaders to grow companies and jobs from the universities' research centers.
www.govexec.com /features/0204hs/0204HS_experts5.htm   (335 words)

  
 APA's Science Policy Insider News - April 2004
Cohon described the chilling effect U.S. Visa policy is having on the graduate student population - a key workforce in the academic research enterprise.
Cohon noted that the Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee (HSSTAC) met on the same day (2/26/04) as his committee and discussed the importance of coordinating their respective activities.
As an example, Dr. Cohon cited the need to not only produce sensitive and reliable biosensors but also understand how they would function within a system relying on humans to monitor and resolve alarms.
www.apa.org /ppo/spin/404.html   (1239 words)

  
 Mellon Financial Corporation Board of Directors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jared Cohon has been president of Carnegie Mellon University, a private co-educational research university in Pittsburgh, since July 1997.
Cohon received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and master's and doctorate degrees in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Cohon currently serves as a director of American Standard Companies Inc. and is on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, Allegheny Conference on Community Development, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (vice chairman) and Urban League of Pittsburgh.
www.mellon.com /governance/directors.html   (3056 words)

  
 The Hindu : National : Generate competition, says Cohon
NEW DELHI: President of Carnegie Mellon University Jared Cohon on Thursday said that India needed to generate enough competition among its universities for conducting studies on various subjects as also develop faculties for genuine research and developmental work for the larger benefit of its societies.
Stating this at the concluding day of a conference on `Globalisation and Higher Education in India,' organised by Assocham and (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations) here, Dr. Cohon said that Indian universities needed to emulate the U.S. higher education pattern, which promotes research and innovation to take research to a logical end.
Currently, the focus of Indian academicians is on higher education, which hardly yields results, and that in an era when IT and knowledge-based industries are demanding innovation.
www.hindu.com /2006/11/03/stories/2006110301191300.htm   (218 words)

  
 DON SMITH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Along with Nordenberg and CMU President Jared Cohon, Smith was an architect of the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse, a state-funded consortium of companies, universities and nonprofits working to make southwestern Pennsylvania a chip-design center.
And, we've created an environment in the greater Oakland area that is conducive to attracting the best faculty, attracting and retaining the best students, and generating an entrepreneurial- and technology-driven economy that makes this a highly attractive place to live and work.
President Cohon said this morning that he immediately endorsed the idea of your joint appointment, when Chancellor Nordenberg suggested it to him.
www.pitt.edu /utimes/issues/34/020124/08.html   (2072 words)

  
 CMU closing its Carnegie Mellon Research Institute
The institute, which conducts research on a contract basis for businesses, was losing money, said Jared Cohon, Carnegie Mellon University's president.
While declining to provide actual dollar amounts, Cohon said in a telephone interview yesterday that a restructuring was necessary because of the university's recent decision to focus its strategic plan more narrowly.
While Wall Street's technology stocks have taken a dive in recent months, Cohon said he wasn't sure what impact the economy may have had on the institute's profitability.
www.post-gazette.com /healthscience/20010331cmuhealth2.asp   (666 words)

  
 American Standard - Board of Directors
Cohon was elected president of Carnegie Mellon University in 1997 and was also appointed Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Engineering and Public Policy.
Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Cohon was Dean and Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University.
Previously, he was a professor of Geography and Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he also served as Vice Provost for Research from 1986 to 1992, Associate Dean of Engineering from 1983 to 1986, and Assistant Dean of Engineering from 1981 to 1983.
ir.americanstandard.com /directors.cfm   (982 words)

  
 EPP :: Jared L. Cohon
Professor Cohon is interested in environmental systems analysis, especially the development and application of optimization tools for large-scale natural resource and environmental problems.
As President of the University, Professor Cohon has little opportunity to conduct research or teach, but he does give guest lectures on occasion and is pleased to act as an informal advisor on research.
Professor Cohon is the chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment.
www.epp.cmu.edu /httpdocs/people/bios/cohon.html   (261 words)

  
 Hearing Summary on High-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal
Jared Cohon, chairman of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, was called to comment on the Viability Assessment and on H.R. Dr. Cohon made note that H.R.45 involves policy that is outside of the Review Board's technical and scientific expertise.
However, he urged that if H.R. 45 is enacted, that it not interfere with, or detract from resources needed for further site testing for the permanent repository at Yucca Mountain.
Barrett, Dr. Cohon suggested that the VA should not be viewed as a suitability determination.
www.agiweb.org /gap/legis106/yuccahearings.html   (4004 words)

  
 AO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But Richard Griffiths, who heads the astrophysics group, said the university will not be able to invest the $6 million it had originally planned to contribute and that the amount of time guaranteed to the university's astronomers will drop proportionately.
Carnegie Mellon President Jared Cohon recently signed a memorandum of understanding that commits the university to fork over at least $1 million to build and operate the scope over the next 10 years.
Griffiths said the university has raised only about a quarter of that amount thus far and even that money is not yet in hand, so he is reluctant to identify the source.
www.phyast.pitt.edu /News/g2.html   (959 words)

  
 Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg | University of Pittsburgh
Chancellor Nordenberg serves as cochair, with Carnegie Mellon University President Jared Cohon, of both Greenhouse boards.
The award recognized the cooperative accomplishments of Nordenberg and Cohon in regional development initiatives, specifically their joint leadership involvement in the Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse and the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse.
In 2003, Chancellor Nordenberg and President Cohon shared honors again when they received the Person of Vision award, which is presented to outstanding community leaders by Pittsburgh Vision Services.
www.umc.pitt.edu /chancellor/profile.html   (1580 words)

  
 Identity Fraud at Carnegie Mellon Heinz School and CyLab
Jared Cohon, is President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
But, Cohon neglected to mention his “Joe Millionaire” problem to the countries contracting with iCarnegie and “Joe”: Australia, Barbados, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Spain, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.
June 2002 issue of Carnegie Mellon News announced that the Trustees had reappointed Jared Cohon to a second five-year term as university President.
www.cylab.org   (1188 words)

  
 carnegie_mellon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On April 15, 1997, Jared L. Cohon, former dean of Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, was elected by the Board of Trustees to become school president.
During Cohon's presidency, Carnegie Mellon has continued its trajectory of innovation and growth.
President Cohon leads a comprehensive strategic plan that aims to leverage the university's existing strengths to benefit society in the areas of biotechnology and life sciences, information and security technology, environmental science and practices, the fine arts and humanities.
www.netconferencecall.com /wiki/?title=Carnegie_Mellon   (1618 words)

  
 Cohon Named to Homeland Security Advisory Council
U.S. President George W. Bush has appointed Carnegie Mellon President Jared Cohon to his 16-member Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Cohon is a national authority on environmental and water resource systems analysis, a discipline that combines engineering, economics and applied mathematics.
He is chairman of the federal Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board and a member of the executive committee of the Council on Competitiveness, which focuses on U.S. economic competitiveness and leadership.
www.cmu.edu /cmnews/020621/020621_hscouncil.html   (498 words)

  
 LAS VEGAS RJ:NEWS: Hold Yucca report, state urges
The impact statement is expected to be finished in October.
      After the meeting, the board's chairman, Jared Cohon, an expert in environmental and water resource analysis and president of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, spoke privately about documents Szymanski presented at the close of the hearing's public comment session.
Of the new information, Cohon said: "We'll have to reserve judgment until we review the state's documents and see the results from the UNLV study."
www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2000/Jan-27-Thu-2000/news/12834821.html   (707 words)

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