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Dr. Morgan Edwards is an Assistant Professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She was previously a University of Maryland President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Center for Global Sustainability and an affiliated fellow at the Joint Global Change Research Institute. Her research addresses policy challenges in deeply decarbonizing the energy system from an interdisciplinary perspective. Morgan’s current projects focus on fixing leaks in natural gas distribution systems, accelerating the phase-out of coal power plants, and assessing the equity implications of large scale use of negative emissions technologies. Morgan received her Ph.D. in Engineering Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), her S.M. in Technology and Policy from MIT, and her B.S. in Environmental Science and Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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School Authors: Morgan Edwards, Kathleen Kennedy

Other Authors: Eugenie Dugoua, Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez, Destenie Nock, Stephanie Arcusa, Sergio Castellanos, Michael R. Davidson, Clara Galeazzi, Xue Gao, Michelle Graff , Eleftheria Kontou, Priyank Lathwal, Mirko Musa, Eric O’Rear, S. Sivaranjani, Jingjing Zhang, Qianru Zhu

School Authors: Nathan Hultman, Leon Clarke, Haewon McJeon, Morgan Edwards, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui, Christina Bowman, Jiehong Lou

Other Authors: Carla Frisch , Kevin Kennedy, Tom Cyrs, Pete Hansel, Paul Bodnar, Michelle Manion , Jessie Lund , Michael I. Westphal, Andrew Clapper , Joel Jaeger , Arijit Sen , Devashree Saha, Wendy Jaglom, Koben Calhoun, Kristin Igusky, James deWeese, Kareem Hammoud, J.C. Altimirano, Margaret Dennis, Chris Henderson, Gill Zwicker, John O'Neill

School Authors: Nathan Hultman, Leon Clarke, Christina Bowman, Morgan Edwards, Yiyun 'Ryna' Cui

Other Authors: Carla Frisch, Kevin Kennedy, Paul Bodnar, Pete Hansel, Tom Cyrs, Michelle Manion, Jessie Lund, Joel Jaeger, Andrew Clapper, Arijit Sen, Devashree Saha, Michael Westphal, Wendy Jaglom , Juan Carlos Altamirano, Maggie Dennis, Kareem Hammoud, Christopher Henderson, John O'Neill, Emily Goldfield