Faculty Biographies

John Paul Kusz

Adjunct Professor

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Education

• B.F.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• M.F.A., University of Illinois, Chicago
• M.B.A., Dominican University

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Biography
Professor Kusz heads JPKusz Ltd., which develops technologies and strategies aimed at mitigating the negative environmental affects of commerce. Formerly, he directed the product development and product stewardship groups at Safety-Kleen Corporation, an environmental services company. He has authored over 25 articles and presented at national and international conferences, speaking principally on environmental problem-solving through the product design process and organizational change. He served on the U.S. EPA Peer Review Group's Product Life Cycle Assessment Project, on technical committees at the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and authored a study for the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment on the correlation of corporate, economic, and environmental trends in the household chemical products industry. He holds 10 U.S. and foreign patents.