{"61237":{"#nid":"61237","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Senate Confirms Brown Appointment to TVA","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn September\n 16, the U.S. Senate\u0026nbsp;confirmed Marilyn A. Brown to the Tennessee Valley \nAuthority Board of Directors.\u0026nbsp; Brown,\u0026nbsp;a professor of energy policy in \nthe Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts School of Public \nPolicy, was\u0026nbsp;nominated December 10, 2009, by President Obama for a term \nexpiring May 18, 2012.\u0026nbsp; She succeeds Susan Richardson Williams, whose \nterm expired.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrown has been on the faculty at Georgia Tech since\n 2006.\u0026nbsp; Previous to that she had a\u0026nbsp;distinguished career at the U.S. \nDepartment of Energy\u0027s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At ORNL, she led \nseveral national scenario studies of climate change technology and \npolicy options and held various leadership positions. Her current \nresearch addresses the development and deployment of sustainable energy \ntechnologies, the design of policy options to reduce carbon dioxide \nemissions and the evaluation of energy programs and policies . At \nGeorgia Tech, her \u003Ca href=\u0022..\/faculty\/mbrown\/viewlist.php?id=1\u0022\u003Eresearch projects\u003C\/a\u003E\n have included an assessment of the $3 billion\/year multi-agency R\u0026amp;D\n portfolio comprising the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program, \nanalysis of the geography of metropolitan carbon footprints, development\n of a national climate change technology deployment strategy, and an \nassessment of the cost and availability of supply- and demand-side \nelectricity resources in the Southeast.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe senate also confirmed\n to the TVA board, Barbara S. Haskew, a professor of economics at Middle\n Tennessee State University,\u0026nbsp;Neil G. McBride, a long-time \npublic-interest lawyer, Bill Sansom, a former chairman of the TVA Board \nand president and chief executive officer of Knoxville-based H.T. \nHackney Company.\u0026nbsp; The four join current members of the board: Current \nmembers of the TVA Board of Directors are Chairman Dennis Bottorff of \nNashville, Tenn.; Mike Duncan of Inez, Ky.; Tom Gilliland, of \nBlairsville, Ga.; William Graves of Memphis, Tenn., and Howard \nThrailkill of Huntsville, Ala.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn September\n 16, the U.S. Senate\u0026nbsp;confirmed Marilyn A. Brown to the Tennessee Valley \nAuthority Board of Directors.\u0026nbsp; Brown,\u0026nbsp;a professor of energy policy in \nthe Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts School of Public \nPolicy, was\u0026nbsp;nominated December 10, 2009, by President Obama for a term \nexpiring May 18, 2012\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On September 16, the U.S. Senate confirmed Marilyn A. Brown to the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors."}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2010-09-27 08:21:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:27","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-09-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-09-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"60736":{"id":"60736","type":"image","title":"Dr. Marilyn Brown","body":null,"created":"1449176296","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:16","changed":"1475894528","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:08","alt":"Dr. Marilyn Brown","file":{"fid":"191201","name":"tew48476.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tew48476_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tew48476_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":36458,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tew48476_0.jpg?itok=OSon5Ver"}}},"media_ids":["60736"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/","title":"Ivan Allen College"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.spp.gatech.edu\/aboutus\/faculty\/MarilynBrown","title":"Brown bio"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"155","name":"Congressional Testimony"}],"keywords":[{"id":"999","name":"IAC"},{"id":"955","name":"ivan allen college"},{"id":"330","name":"Marilyn Brown"},{"id":"9990","name":"TVA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u0026nbsp; 404-894-1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}