EAST LANSING, Mich. — A steering committee composed of 24 Michigan State University faculty, staff, administrators and students will help guide the university as it transitions from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources.
Members have critical knowledge in engineering, economics, health, conservation and behavior. The group will create draft goals and strategies for public feedback and external review.
Following are members of the steering committee.
Diane Baker, Residential and Hospitality Services
Jennifer Battle, Office of Campus Sustainability
Wolfgang Bauer, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Janice Beecher, Institute of Public Utilities
Nicholas Bell, undergraduate student
Lynda Boomer, Physical Plant
Jennifer Carter-Johnson, College of Law
Thomas Dietz, Environmental Science and Policy Program
Robert Ellerhorst, Physical Plant
Ron Flinn, Physical Plant
Mark Haas, Office of the Vice President for Finance and Operations
Joe Hagerty, undergraduate student
Sarah Herbst, master’s student
Brian Jacobs, Eli Broad College of Business
Satish Joshi, Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
Leo Kempel, College of Engineering
Barbara Kranz, Office of Planning and Budgets
Elizabeth Lawrence, College of Human Medicine
Adam Liter, undergraduate student
Tim Mrozowski, School of Planning Design and Construction
Kenneth Rosenman, Department of Medicine
David Skole, Department of Forestry
Rene Stewart O’Neal, Office of Planning and Budgets
Kwame Yeboah, doctoral student
The formation of the committee is just the latest step in MSU’s energy-transition process. For more than a year, MSU has been engaging in an energy-transitioning process. Staff and administrators have collected data, created educational and financial models and commissioned a study to evaluate energy infrastructure.
The committee is scheduled to submit the transition plan to the MSU Board of Trustees in early winter 2012.
For more information, visit www.energytransition.msu.edu.
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