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WHEREAS, on May 9, 2011, after a four-month struggle with cancer, the passing of Professor Lester B. Lave has left us deeply saddened, he will be missed but not forgotten; and
WHEREAS, Professor Lave was an icon at Carnegie Mellon University as one of the nation's leading environmental economists, where he had achieved the highest plateaus in scholarship and friendship; and
WHEREAS, Professor Lave was a beloved teacher and a prolific scholar, admired by his students, academic peers and policy-makers, creating a body of meaningful research, which placed him among the world's most respected thought-leaders on global energy issues and public policy; and
WHEREAS, for the past 15 years, Professor Lave devoted much of his attention to two problems: green design and improving the structure of our electricity system, and his work transcended many fields, most notably in areas of risk, the environment and economic decision making; and
WHEREAS, Professor Lave was a University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can achieve at Carnegie Mellon, the Harry B. and James H. Higgins Professor of Economics at the Tepper School of Business,
professor of engineering and public policy , director of the Green Design Institute and co-director of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center; and
WHEREAS, with the exception of five years at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Professor Lave spent his entire professional career at Carnegie Mellon, where he published or contributed to 28 books and countless publications; and
WHEREAS, Professor Lave served for eight years as the head of Carnegie Mellon's Department of Economics, and his academic appointments spanned the Tepper School of Business , the Department of Engineering and Public Policy in the College of Engineering
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