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3 IE Offered January 12, 2022 N Commending Michael E.

TN ––––––––––R Patron––HackworthAgreed Rto ––––––––––by Othe KarmisSenate, retiredJanuary as27, the2022 directorWHEREAS, ofafter themore Virginiathan Center20 foryears Coalof andexceptional Energyservice Researchto onthe DecemberCommonwealth, 31,Michael 2021;E.

O Karmis retired as the director of the Virginia Center for Coal and DEnergy WHEREAS,Research on December 31, L 202WHEREAS, the Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research was created on March 30, 1977, as UL an interdisciplinary study, research, information, and resource facility of Virginia PolytechniCPolytechnic InstituteInstEtute and State University;

since becoming director in 1998, Michael Karmis has helped the center support thetDe uniWHEREAS, Michael Karmis's indefatigable efforts to identify funding sources and initiatives, toion;

and develop partnerships with other universities, to establish relationships with government agencies, and to create consortia that include diverse profit and non-profit organizations and represent broad constituencies, have resulted in unprecedented growth in research funding and sponsored contracts for the Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research;

and in research funding and sponsored contracts for WHEREAS, under the leadership of Michael Karmis, the Virginia Center for Coal and Energy staff,Research has provided support for undergraduate students, graduate students, post-doctoral associatesR research opportunities for numerous students and administrative,junior research,faculty, enabling them to become successfulndE professionals in the fields of mineral extraction, health and teachingsafety, faculty;sustainable development, and carbon management;

theand centerCommonwealth hasand alsothe createdAppalachian mentorshipregion, and,both researchpersonally opportunitiesand forthrough numerousthe studentsVirginia andCenter juniorfor faculty,Coal enablingand themEnergy toResearch, becomeby successfulproviding professionalsunbiased ininformation theto fieldsbusinesses, oflegislators, mineralfederal, extraction,state, health and safety,local sustainableagencies, development,and Sndthe carbongeneral management;public;

andnow, 3therefore, WHEREAS,be Michaelit Karmisoccasion hasof contributedhis toretirement theas environmentaldirector and economic well-being of the Commonwealth and the Appalachian region, both personally and through the Virginia Center for Coal local agencies, and theEnergy generalResearch; public;

now, therefore, be itinesses, legislators, federal, state, and RESOLVED by the Senate of Virginia, That Michael E.

Karmis hereby be commended on the occasion of his retirement as director of the Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research;