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Dr. Jonathan Caulkins to present 2012 Moshe M. Barash Memorial Lecture
Jonathan
P. Caulkins, a Carnegie Mellon professor and expert in the systems
analysis of problems related to drugs, crime, terror, violence and
prevention, will speak about U.S. drug policy on Nov. 1 at Purdue
University.
Caulkins will give the Moshe M. Barash Memorial Lecture
at 1:30 p.m. in the Purdue Memorial Union's East and West Faculty
Lounge. His talk is titled "Providing a Scientific Basis for Policy
Making."
The talk, which is free and open to the public, will
focus on providing a scientific basis for drug policy and an analysis of
marijuana legalization. Caulkins will touch on marijuana-related
propositions on ballots in three states for the November general
election.
He is the H. Guyford Stever Professor of Operations
Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Qatar campus
and Heinz College of Public Policy and Information Systems Management.
Caulkins has more than 100 refereed articles in
journals, has authored or co-authored nine books including "Drugs and
Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know;" "Drug Policy and the Public
Good;" and "Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes: With Applications in
Drugs, Corruption, and Terror."
His latest book, "Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone
Needs to Know," covers issues including risks and benefits of using
marijuana, laws surrounding the drug in the United States and abroad,
and the likely costs and benefits of legalization at the state and
national levels.
"Neither I nor my co-authors are advocating for or
against marijuana legalization," Caulkins said. "Our aim is just to
allow voters to make a more informed choice. There are a great number of
myths and misunderstandings about drug policy, drug markets,
legalization, and so on."
Caulkins has won the David Kershaw Award from the
Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, a Robert Wood
Johnson Health Investigator Award, and the INFORMS President̢۪s Award.
He is a past co-director of the RAND Corp.'s Drug Policy Research
Center, founding director of RAND̢۪s Pittsburgh office, and continues
to work on a variety of government projects.
The Moshe M. Barash Lecture is named for the late
Ransburg Professor Emeritus of Manufacturing Engineering and Industrial
Engineering. A leader in the field of manufacturing science and
engineering, Barash retired from Purdue in 1992 and died in June 2006.
Among his major contributions was his pioneering research to enable
computers for factory planning and scheduling, including automatic
process planning and computerized manufacturing systems. A fellow of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Barash also made significant
contributions to the design of automatic flexible fixtures, automated
design of manufacturing systems, precision engineering, robot
applications, and computer-aided manufacturing.
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