Infrastructure institute director named

Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa, July 18) – Mark Petri, the director of the University of Iowa’s premiere energy research center, says he’s resigning after a successful tenure marked by pushback from utilities and other groups. Petri says the situation made him open to recruitment efforts by the University of Illinois, where he will lead a new critical infrastructure resilience institute. The Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute conducts research and education to enhance the resiliency of the Nation’s critical infrastructures and the businesses and public entities that own and operate those assets and systems. CIRI is a joint partnership with the Applied Research Institute and the Information Trust Institute at Illinois and involves the expertise of a number of DOE national labs and research universities.