Career Services Calendar

Lunch with Lester Lave ('60)
Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon
GCC-B Noon-1 PM

As a part of the Reed Economics Lecture Series, The Price  of Power: The Electricity Restructuring Debate, Lester Lave '60, is on campus to deliver the following speech, "Electricity Deregulation: Has it Worked? Can it Work?" at 7:30pm, in VLH, on November 6, 2008. BEFORE that talk, earlier in the day, you have the opportunity to meet and share lunch with Professor Lave.

If you'd like to join, please e-mail Leah Faw, fawl@reed.edu, to be a part of the lunch lottery. NOTE: to be included, please e-mail Leah no later than noon on Tuesday, November 4, 2008.

Lester B. Lave '60 is Harry B. and James H. Higgins Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon and university professor, with  appointments in the business, engineering, and public policy schools. Lave is the founder and director of the Carnegie Mellon Green Design Institute, which has conducted research on sustainability, life cycle analysis, alternative automobile fuels, and related topics for 15 years. As the head of the university-wide  Green Design Initiative, he works with businesses such as IBM, and with government agencies such as the Department of Energy, to address the fundamental problems in pollution prevention. He is  co-director of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, the  largest engineering-business center focused on the electricity industry, and has acted as a consultant to many government agencies  and companies, including the Environmental Protection Agency. Currently, he is chair of the Energy Efficiency/Conservation Panel of the National Academy of Sciences new study on American's Energy Future.