Carnegie Mellon University Awarded An AT&T; Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship

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Carnegie Mellon University Awarded An AT&T; Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship

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Carnegie Mellon University Awarded An AT&T; Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Mar. 22 -/E-Wire/-- AT&T; selected researchers from six leading universities, including Carnegie Mellon University, to receive an AT&T; Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon received a $25,000 grant to support their project, "Economic, Energy, and Environmental Implications of Wired versus Wireless Data Networks."

Industrial Ecology is a multidisciplinary field that studies industrial and economic systems and their linkage with natural systems. It also intersects with disciplines such as law, economics, anthropology, business studies, engineering, and the social and physical sciences. Other recipients of this year’s faculty fellowship include the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Irvine, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, University of Michigan, and University of Missouri-Rolla.

"The support of the AT&T; Foundation is appropriate in our research to identify the relative energy usage of wired versus wireless networking," said Dr. H. Scott Matthews, Research Director, Green Design Initiative at Carnegie Mellon. "AT&T; has been a leader in both fields and has strong environmental commitments as well."

Information and communications technologies are changing the way we converse, do business, and retrieve information. The most notable shift in the past decade has been from wired to wireless communication networks. More bandwidth is used today for data communications than for voice, and wireless communication is growing at a much faster rate -- e.g., there are now more wireless telephone subscribers worldwide than fixed wired subscribers. Dr. Matthews and his colleague, Dr. Chris T. Hendrickson, will seek to consider the relative economic, energy, and environmental implications of wired versus wireless data networks.

“The proposals that we have selected for funding under the AT&T; Industrial Ecology Fellowship program for 2001-2002 are truly excellent,â€쳌 said Brad Allenby, AT&T; Environment, Health and Safety Vice President. “We are proud to support research and teaching of this quality, and thus contribute to a better world for us and our children.â€쳌

The AT&T; Foundation established the Industrial Ecology Grants Program in 1993 to encourage academic activity in this field. Since then, the program has awarded faculty research fellowships, supported the Colloquium on Industrial Ecology at the National Academy of Sciences, supported two conferences on research in the field, and helped launch the Journal of Industrial Ecology. This program is consistent with AT&T;’s environmental social responsibility and its support of environmental initiatives and organizations.

The AT&T; Foundation invests in projects that address a range of public concerns. Emphasis is placed on programs that serve the needs of people in communities where AT&T; has a significant business presence; initiatives that use technology in innovative ways; and programs that AT&T; employees are actively involved with as contributors and/or volunteers. For further information, please visit the AT&T; Foundation web site at www.att.com/foundation.

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