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Renewable Energy Entrepreneurship Breakfast Series

Author:For Immediate Release Contact: Charla Stevens Kucko charla.kucko@simon.rochester.edu or (585) 273-48

Release Date: Oct 08, 2009

EVENT: Renewable Energy Entrepreneurship Breakfast Series featuring Kristina Johnson, Under Secretary, United States Department of Energy

TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: 7:30 a.m., Breakfast; 8:00 a.m., Lecture; 9:00 a.m., Networking; Friday, October 9, 2009, University of Rochester Laser Lab, 240 East River Road, East Entrance.

Rochester, N.Y.—October 8, 2009—The Simon Graduate School of Business and the University of Rochester Center for Entrepreneurship are partnering to host the first in a monthly series of seminars on renewable energy.

            The series, aimed at businesses in Western New York focused on renewable energy as well as the general public, is being planned by a task force featuring representatives from the University of Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology, Monroe Community College, Finger Lakes Community College, Genesee Community College, Finger Lakes Wired and High Tech Rochester. The goal is to leverage the region’s wealth of creativity and innovation in developing new technologies to spur economic development. In the coming months, the breakfast series will examine big picture issues on renewable energy, including the most important technologies for New York State such as wind, geothermal, biofuels, fuel cells, photovoltaics, energy storage and the smart grid.

The first event in the series will feature keynote speaker Kristina Johnson, Ph.D., Under Secretary at the United States Department of Energy. An expert in renewable energy, Dr. Johnson will givean inside look at the Federal Government’s Energy Policy.

Previously, Dr. Johnson was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University. She received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.  After serving on the faculty at the University of Colorado-Boulder, she directed the National Science Foundation/Engineering Research Center for Optoelectronics Computing Systems Center at the University of Colorado and Colorado State University, and then served as dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University.

Dr. Johnson has 142 refereed papers and proceedings and holds 45 U.S. patents (129 U.S. and international patents) and patents pending. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards in her field, most recently the John Fritz Medal, widely considered the highest award in the engineering profession. Previous recipients of the Fritz Medal include Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Orville Wright.

Next month’s event will feature Patrick Flynn, an analyst with Good Energies, on November 20, 2009, from 8:00─10:00 a.m. at Rochester Institute of Technology. For more information, visit www.simon.rochester.edu/renewenergy.

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The Simon School prides itself as the place Where Thinkers Become Leaders™ and is currently ranked among the leading graduate business schools in the world in rankings published by the popular press, including BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Forbes. For example, the Financial Times recently rated the School 2nd in the world for finance and 5th in the world for managerial economics. More information about the Simon School is available on the World Wide Web at www.simon.rochester.edu.