{"634835":{"#nid":"634835","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Marilyn Brown Elected to National Academy of Sciences","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBy Michael Pearson\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarilyn Brown, Regents Professor and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the School of Public Policy, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer election to the prestigious organization, announced April 27, comes less than three months after her election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/brown\u0022\u003EBrown\u003C\/a\u003E becomes just one of four Georgia Institute of Technology faculty members elected to the NAS, and one of two with membership in both academies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am honored to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and I look forward to the opportunities it will bring to advance the sustainable energy systems and policies the world so desperately needs,\u0026rdquo; Brown said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBrown is an international leader in clean energy policy known for her pioneering work developing economic-engineering models incorporating behavioral and social science principles into policy analysis of energy systems. Her influential research quantified the \u0026ldquo;energy-efficiency gap,\u0026rdquo; which highlights the importance of promoting cost-effective energy conservation improvements as a tool to improve energy security and reduce the impact of climate change.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe is a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for her work on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III Assessment Report on Mitigation of Climate Change, Chapter 6.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKaye Husbands Fealing, chair of the School of Public Policy and the College\u0026rsquo;s incoming dean, said Brown\u0026rsquo;s election was even more remarkable given her recent appointment to the National Academy of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am thrilled, but in no way surprised, that the National Academy of Sciences has elected Marilyn as a member,\u0026rdquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/fealing\u0022\u003EHusbands Fealing\u003C\/a\u003E said. \u0026ldquo;She is a global leader in the important work of analyzing and advancing sustainable energy policy and has an outstanding record of scholarship and achievement in her field.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003EBrown\u0026rsquo;s Influential Career\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBrown has been at Georgia Tech since 2006. Previously, she worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she served as director of the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program and the Engineering Science and Technology Division. Brown also has served on the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority and in advisory roles at the U.S. Department of Energy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2000, she led the Scenarios for a Clean Energy Future project, which at the time was the most detailed carbon-reduction analysis funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERecently, she has been leading \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-events\/stories\/2020\/4\/georgia-tech-leads-team-effort-reduce-carbon-footprint\/634630\u0022\u003EDrawdown Georgia\u003C\/a\u003E, a multi-institution effort to identify the most promising solutions to reduce Georgia\u0026rsquo;s carbon emissions by 2030.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe credited colleagues and students in the School of Public Policy and from across Georgia Tech for their contributions to the research she pursues as head of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cepl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EClimate and Energy Policy Laboratory.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Georgia Tech is a wonderful place to pursue my research. I am surrounded by world-class colleagues and high-energy, top-tier students who are indispensable to making this work happen.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003ETwo Other Georgia Tech Faculty Elected\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are nonprofit organizations formed to offer advice on the world\u0026rsquo;s most pressing issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the NAS, 2,403 U.S. scientists are currently serving as elected members of the organization, a status considered to be one of the highest professional honors for scientists.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to Brown, Randall Engle of the School of Psychology and, Arkadi\u0026nbsp;S. Nemirovski of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering were \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/2020\/05\/08\/brown-engle-nemirovski-elected-national-academy-sciences\u0022\u003Ealso elected\u003C\/a\u003E to the NAS. Nemirovski is also an elected member of the NAE.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBrown, Engle, and Nemirovski join Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Regents Professor and Julius Brown Chair in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, as members in the NAS. El-Sayed was elected to the NAS in 1980.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E is a unit of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMarilyn Brown, Regents Professor and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the School of Public Policy, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Marilyn Brown of the School of Public Policy has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences"}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2020-04-29 13:06:09","changed_gmt":"2020-05-08 17:51:49","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"617552":{"id":"617552","type":"image","title":"Marilyn Brown","body":null,"created":"1549654607","gmt_created":"2019-02-08 19:36:47","changed":"1549654607","gmt_changed":"2019-02-08 19:36:47","alt":"","file":{"fid":"235058","name":"Brown Portrait High Res 2018.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Brown%20Portrait%20High%20Res%202018.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Brown%20Portrait%20High%20Res%202018.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1084696,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Brown%20Portrait%20High%20Res%202018.png?itok=xDn4Rjz4"}}},"media_ids":["617552"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"330","name":"Marilyn Brown"},{"id":"468","name":"NAS"},{"id":"1972","name":"NAE"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Pearson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nmichael.pearso@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}