Academia

Prep for Susan Dio, guiding how she should speak about BP’s university research investments, particularly its funding of the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts, the CMI at Princeton, and the BP Center for International Advance Materials, a partnership with University of Manchester, Cambridge, Imperial College London, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Notes on the reasons for investing in various universities’ research programs. Under Harvard, for example, it notes: “Harvard is a revolving door for U.S. government officials.”

Notes on whether BP should renew grants to Harvard and Tufts, whether the grants should be reduced or increased, and what value the grants deliver to the company

Emails about a concerning Princeton study, the response to it from the American Petroleum Institute, and what BP should do.

Slides from a presentation given by Steve Pacala and Robert Socolow of Princeton University to a BP town hall in Houston, entitled “The Challenge of Climate Change.”

Notes detailing BP’s plans to scale back and refocus its grants for Harvard and Tufts research programs.

A Four-Day “Adventure Seminar for K-12 Teachers,” sponsored by the Western States Petroleum Association American Petroleum Institute, and San Joaquin Valley Chapter.

BP email on the value of the company’s investment in research at Princeton