Former White House and US Secretary-of-State Senior Advisers
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Dr. Norman P. Neureiter |
Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State (The Hon. Madeline
Albright & The Hon. Colin Powell). |
Dr. Norman P. Neureiter was sworn in as Science and Technology Adviser
to the Secretary of State on September 19, 2000. A PhD organic chemist, Dr.
Neureiter has extensive experience in government and industry, and a public
policy background that includes close ties to academia.
Since taking early retirement in 1996 from Texas Instruments (TI), where
he was Vice President of TI Asia, Dr. Neureiter has served as U.S. co-chair
of the U.S.-Japan Joint High Level Advisory Committee, a body of leading
university and industry representatives that advises the U.S. and Japanese
governments on science and technology (S&T) matters under the auspices of
the U.S.-Japan Science and Technology Agreement. Concurrently, he served
as a U.S.
Commissioner of the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Joint Fund II, which supports
cooperative S&T research between Polish and U.S. scientists under the U.S.
Science and Technology Agreement with Poland.
In 1998, Dr. Neureiter was appointed to the Committee on International
Space Programs of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research
Council's Space Studies Board.
Dr. Neureiter has also served as Director (and past president) of the
Dallas Council on World Affairs, a Director (and past president) of the
Japan-America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth, and Vice-Chairman of the Board
of the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) in New York.
From 1973 to 1996, Dr. Neureiter held a variety of positions in Texas
Instruments, including Director of East-West Business Development, Manager
of International Business Development, and Manager of the TI Europe Division.
As Vice President for Corporate Staff, he was the company's principal
spokesperson throughout the world from 1980-1989. From 1989 until 1996, he
served as a Director of TI Japan, and Vice President of TI Asia.
Prior to his work with private industry, Dr. Neureiter worked as
International Affairs Assistant in the White House Office of Science and
Technology during 1969-1973, reporting to the President's Science Adviser.
In this capacity, he was deeply involved in preparing agreements on
cooperation in science and technology initiated in 1972-1973 by President
Nixon with the leaders of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of
China.
Dr. Neureiter entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1965, serving as Deputy
Science Attache in the U.S. Embassy in Bonn, Germany. From 1967-1969, he was
the first U.S. Science Attache in Eastern Europe, based at the U.S. Embassy,
Warsaw, with responsibility for Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland.
From 1963 to 1965, Dr. Neureiter worked in the International Affairs Office
of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington, D.C. He became Program
Director of the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Science Program, created at the initiative
of President Kennedy and Japanese Prime Minister Ikeda to encourage closer
relations between the scientific communities of the two countries.
Norman Neureiter joined Humble Oil and Refining Company (now part of Exxon
Corporation) in 1957 as a research chemist. His research work was in the fields
of butadiene chemistry, organic sulfur compounds and the development of
antioxidant systems for polypropylene. He registered ten patents and authored a
number of scientific publications in the field of organic reaction mechanisms.
In addition, from 1957-1960, he was an instructor in German and Russian at the
University of Houston. On leave from Humble Oil in 1959, he served the U.S.
Government as a guide at the U.S. National Exhibition in Moscow, becoming also a
part-time Russian-English escort interpreter for the U.S. Department of State.
Norman Neureiter received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the
University of Rochester (N.Y.) in 1952 and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from
Northwestern University in 1957. In 1955-1956, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the
Institute for Organic Chemistry at the University of Munich, Germany.
Dr. Neureiter was born in Macomb, Illinois, on January 24, 1932, and grew up in
Geneseo, New York. He reads and speaks German, Russian, Polish, French, Spanish and
Japanese. He is married to the former Georgine Reid, and has four children.
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Dr. J. Thomas Ratchford |
Director, Science & Trade Policy Program Distinguished
Visiting Professor, George Mason University School of Law. |
Before joining George Mason University in 1993, Dr. Ratchford was Associate
Director for Policy and International Affairs at the White House Office of Science
and Technology Policy (OSTP). Prior to confirmation by the Senate to his OSTP
position in 1989, he was the Associate Executive Officer of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Ratchford is also CEO
of STTA, LC.
A condensed matter physicist, Dr. Ratchford has served on university faculties
and research staffs of private and governmental laboratories. As a professional
staff member and subcommittee staff director of the House of Representatives'
Committee on Science in the 1970s, he was one of the first scientists to serve
the Congress full-time. He was selected a Congressional Fellow of the American
Political Science Association, a fellow of the AAAS and the American Physical
Society (APS), and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is active
in international science and technology programs in the U.S., Asia, and Europe,
and chairs the U.S. side of the U.S.-China Science Policy Initiative for the
National Science Foundation.
Dr. Ratchford directs The Tech Center's Science & Trade Policy Program.
He publishes extensively on U.S. and global trade and technology trends and
policies.
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FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION joins the
Foundation as a Consultant Member |
Dr. Rita R. Colwell |
Chairman, Canon US Life Sciences, Inc. Distinguished
Professor, University of Maryland College Park and Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Dr. Rita Colwell is Chairman of Canon US Life Sciences, Inc. and
Distinguished University Professor both at the University of Maryland at
College Park and at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public
Health. Her interests are focused on global infectious diseases, water,
and health, and she is currently developing an international network to
address emerging infectious diseases and water issues, including safe
drinking water for both the developed and developing world.
Dr. Colwell served as the 11th Director of the National Science
Foundation, 1998-2004. In her capacity as NSF Director, she served as
Co-chair of the Committee on Science of the National Science and Technology
Council. One of her major interests include K-12 science and mathematics
education, graduate science and engineering education and the increased
participation of women and minorities in science and engineering.
Dr. Colwell has held many advisory positions in the U.S. Government,
nonprofit science policy organizations, and private foundations, as well as
in the international scientific research community. She is a
nationally-respected scientist and educator, and has authored or co-authored
16 books and more than 700 scientific publications. She produced the
award-winning film, Invisible Seas, and has served on editorial boards
of numerous scientific journals.
Before going to NSF, Dr. Colwell was President of the University of Maryland
Biotechnology Institute and Professor of Microbiology and Biotechnology at the
University Maryland. She was also a member of the National Science Board from
1984 to 1990.
Dr. Colwell has previously served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of
the American Academy of Microbiology and also as President of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, the Washington Academy of Sciences,
the American Society for Microbiology, the Sigma Xi National Science Honorary
Society, and the International Union of Microbiological Societies. Dr. Colwell
is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences, Stockholm, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the
American Philosophical Society.
Dr. Colwell has also been awarded 40 honorary degrees from institutions of
higher education, including her Alma Mater, Purdue University. Dr. Colwell is
an honorary member of the microbiological societies of the UK, France, Israel,
Bangladesh, and the U.S. and has held several honorary professorships,
including the University of Queensland, Australia. A geological site in
Antarctica, Colwell Massif, has been named in recognition of her work in the
polar regions.
Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Dr. Colwell holds a B.S. in Bacteriology and
an M.S. in Genetics, from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from
the University of Washington.
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Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Nobel Laureate Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei Joins the Foundation |
Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei |
Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei is the Director General of the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA), an intergovernmental organization that is part of the
United Nations system. He was appointed to the office effective 1 December 1997,
and reappointed to a third term in September 2005.
In October 2005, Dr. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize for efforts "to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military
purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the
safest possible way".
Dr. ElBaradei was from 1984 a senior staff member of the IAEA Secretariat,
holding a number of high-level policy positions, including the Agency´s Legal
Adviser and subsequently Assistant Director General for External Relations.
Dr. ElBaradei was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1942, son of the late Mostafa
ElBaradei, a lawyer and former President of the Egyptian Bar Association. He
gained a Bachelor´s degree in Law in 1962 at the University of Cairo, and a
Doctorate in International Law at the New York University School of Law in
1974. He is also the recipient of various honorary degrees.
He began his career in the Egyptian Diplomatic Service in 1964, serving
on two occasions in the Permanent Missions of Egypt to the United Nations in
New York and Geneva, in charge of political, legal and arms control issues.
From 1974 to 1978 he was a special assistant to the Foreign Minister of Egypt.
In 1980 he left the Diplomatic Service to join the United Nations and became
a senior fellow in charge of the International Law Program at the United
Nations Institute for Training and Research. From 1981 to 1987 he was also an
Adjunct Professor of International Law at the New York University School of
Law.
During his career as diplomat, international civil servant and scholar, Dr.
ElBaradei has become closely familiar with the work and processes of
international organizations, particularly in the fields of international peace
and security and international development. He has lectured widely in the
fields of international law, international organizations, arms control and the
peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and is the author of various articles and books
on these subjects. He belongs to a number of professional associations, including
the International Law Association and the American Society of International Law.
Dr. ElBaradei is married to Aida Elkachef, an early childhood teacher. They
have a daughter, Laila, a lawyer in private practice, and a son, Mostafa, a studio
director with a television network, both of whom live and work in London, England
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Former Chief Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister and Government
of Australia joins the WIF as a Consulting Member |
Dr. Robin Batterham |
Robin Batterham graduated from the University of Melbourne in Chemical
Engineering in 1965. Taking his PhD in 1969, he was awarded a CSIRO scholarship
for postdoctoral studies in the UK.
Starting as a research scientist with CSIRO s Division of Chemical Engineering,
he rose to Chief of the Division of Mineral and Process Engineering in 1985.
Dr Batterham s promotion of close interactions with industry led to novel processes
used today in the Australian and overseas mineral sectors.
In 1988 CRA Ltd, now Rio Tinto Ltd, gave him a major role in technology development
which led to many industrial technology successes.
When the Federal Government introduced its Cooperative Research Centre initiative
in 1991 Dr Batterham was a key advisor. He was appointed Australia s Chief Scientist
in 1999. He is also Chief Technologist for Rio Tinto Ltd.
His report, The Chance to Change widely accepted by the Australian research
community as well as by the Federal Government is seen as providing the blueprint
for Government support for research in the early 21st century.
A recipient of the University of Melbourne Kernot medal for distinguished
engineering achievement, Dr Batterham was elected recently to the World Chemical
Engineering Council acknowledgement that he is one of the world s top 10 chemical
engineers. He has been appointed President of the UK Institution of Chemical Engineers
2004-05.
Example of the thinking of Dr. Batterham :
"Chemical engineers, climate change and sustainability: a formula for smart solutions
that will definitely do more with less" (Chemeca 2005)
Deep cuts in emissions will be required to stabilise the effects of climate change.
No single path will deliver this goal sustainably, ie with due regard to environmental,
societal and economic factors. We are likely to see a significant development of new
processing, abatement and storage technologies and these will all demand more rather
than less chemical engineering. Chemical Engineers in teaching, research and industry
will all need to rise to the challenge.
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National Medal of Science Laureate Joins the Foundation as
Consultant Member |
Professor Francisco J. Ayala |
University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences,
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology;Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy;Professor of Logic and
the Philosophy of Science, Logic & Philosophy of Science. |
Research Interests : Evolutionary Genetics
Academic Distinctions
Awarded 2001 National Medal Of Science. Member: National Academy of Sciences;
American Academy of Arts & Sciences; American Philosophical Society. Foreign Member:
Russian Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome; Royal Academy of
Sciences, Spain; Mexican Academy of Sciences; Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Received: Gold Honorary Gregor Mendel Medal, Czech Academy of Sciences; Gold Medal of
the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei; Gold Medal of the Stazione Zoologica, Naples;
President's Award of the American Institute of Biological Sciences; Scientific Freedom
and Responsibility Award and 150th Anniversary Leadership Medal, AAAS; Medal of the
College of France; UCI Medal, University of California; 1998 Distinguished Scientist
Award, SACNAS; and Sigma Xi's William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, 2000.
Honorary Degrees: Universities of Athens (Greece); Bologna (Italy), Barcelona, Las
Islas Baleares, Leon, Madrid, Valencia, and Vigo (Spain); Vladivostok ( Far East
National University , Russia); and Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic).
Research Abstract
The concept of the molecular clock has revolutionized evolutionary studies. DNA and
protein sequences thus can be used for reconstructing evolutionary history and timing
events of the past. How good is the clock? We are investigating a number of genes and
testing new models of rates of gene evolution.
Another major research effort focuses on the population structure and evolution of
parasitic protozoa, such as the agents of malaria and Chagas. We have shown that the
four species of Plasmodium that cause human malaria diverged many million years ago;
they became human parasites independently, by lateral transfer from other hosts.
However, the world populations of P. falciparum, the agent of malignant malaria,
originated from a single propagule only a few thousand years ago. We have shown that
P. falciparum parasites are genetically virtually identical, except for the genes
responding to the human immune system or to antimalarial drugs.
A third area of investigation is the evolution of molecular adaptation. The main
lines of research are: the evolution of gene regulatory regions, the molecular
adaptation of duplicated genes, ectopic expression, the evolution of pseudogenes, and
the origin and evolution of introns.
Additionally, I am interested in the philosophy of biology and in bioethics, as well
as in the relationships between science and religion, including the teaching of
evolution in the schools.
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One of the World's Foremost Biodiversity Advisors Joins the Foundation
as a Consultant Member |
Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy |
Thomas E. Lovejoy directed the program of World Wildlife Fund-US from 1973 to 1987
and was responsible for its scientific, western hemisphere, and tropical forest
orientation. From 1985 to 1987 he served as the Fund's Executive Vice President. He
is generally credited with having brought the tropical forest problem to the fore as
a public issue, and is one of the main protagonists in the science and conservation of
biological diversity. He was the first person to use the term biological diversity in
1980 and made the first projection of global extinction rates in the Global 2000 Report
to the President that same year. In the field of international conservation he is the
originator of the innovative concept of debt-for-nature swaps. Many such swaps of
international debt for conservation projects have been initiated (including Bolivia,
Costa Rica, Ecuador, the Philippines, Madagascar, Jamaica and Zambia). Over a billion
dollars in conservation funds have already been made available with this mechanism.
He is the founder of the public television series Nature, and for many years served
as principal advisor to the series. This program is the most popular long-term series
on public television.
In 1987 he was appointed Assistant Secretary for Environmental and External Affairs
for the Smithsonian Institution. As Assistant Secretary he supervised the membership
programs, the Smithsonian Magazine, the Smithsonian Press, the Office of Government
Relations, the Office of Development, the Office of Telecommunications, the Office of
International Relations, and the Visitor Information and Reception Center. From
1994-2000 served as Counselor to the Secretary for Biodiversity and Environmental
Affairs for the Smithsonian Institution. In 1988 he served briefly on the White House
Science Council. From 1989 to 1992 he served on the President's Council of Advisors in
Science and Technology (PCAST) and from 1992 to 1998 was Co-Chair for the Committee on
Environment and Natural Resources (CENR) under the Executive Office of the President's
National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). He is past president of the American
Institute of Biological Sciences, past chairman of the United States Man and Biosphere
Program, and past president of the Society for Conservation Biology. In 1993 he was
chosen by the U.S. Secretary of Interior to be the Science Advisor. Among many
responsibilities, he participated in the coordination of the new agency called the National
Biological Survey. He served as Scientific Advisor to the Executive Director of the United
Nations Environment Programme from 1994 to 1997. In 1998 he became Chief Biodiversity
Advisor for the World Bank as well as Lead Specialist for the Environment for the Latin
American region. This was on a reimbursed detail basis. In 2001 he became Senior Advisor
to the President of the United Nations Foundation (created by Ted Turner and located in
Washington). He retains a link to the Smithsonian as Research Associate of the Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute. In 2002 he became the President of The H. John Heinz III Center
for Science, Economics and the Environment (a non-profit institution dedicated to improving
the scientific and economic foundation for environmental policy through multi-sectoral
collaboration among industry, government, academia, and environmental organizations).
A tropical biologist and conservation biologist, has worked in the Amazon of Brazil since
1965. His Ph.D. thesis (1971) introduced the technique of banding to Brazil and identified
patterns of community structure in the first major long-term study of birds in the Amazon.
He conceived the idea for the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems project, also known as
the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project. It is a joint research project of the
Smithsonian Institution and Brazil's National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA - Instituto
Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia). This program, considered a centerpiece of the newly
emerging discipline of conservation biology, is essentially a giant experiment designed to
define the minimum size for national parks and biological reserves as well as management
strategies for small areas. For this work and many conservation initiatives in Brazil he was
decorated by the Brazilian government in 1988, becoming the first environmentalist to receive
the Order of Rio Branco. In 1998, Brazil awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of Scientific
Merit. In April 2001 he received the John & Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
In May 2002 he received the 2002 Lindbergh Award for work dedicated to a balance between the
advance of technology and preservation of the environment.
He serves on numerous scientific and conservation boards and advisory groups including: the
New York Botanical Garden, Committee for the National Institute for the Environment, Royal
Botanical Gardens at Kew, Wildlife Preservation Trust, Resources for the Future and Woods Hole
Research Center. He is Chairman of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies. He is a Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Linnaean Society of London, and the American
Ornithologists' Union.
He is the author of numerous articles and is author or editor of five books including Key
Environments: Amazonia with G.T. Prance, Global Warming and Biological Diversity (Yale University
Press) with R.L. Peters, Ecology, Conservation and Management of Southeast Asian Rainforests
(Yale University Press) with R.O. Bierregaard, Jr., C. Gascon, and R. Mesquita.
He received his B.S. and Ph.D. (biology) from Yale University.
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Chief Scientist of BP Plc Joins the WIF as a Consultant Honorary Member |
Dr. Steven E. Koonin |
Steven E. Koonin was born in Brooklyn, New York and educated at the California Institute of
Technology, receiving a B.S. in physics in 1972, and at MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in
theoretical physics in 1975. He then joined the Caltech faculty in 1975, became full professor
in 1981, serving as Chairman of the Faculty from 1989-1991. Professor Koonin currently holds
the position of Vice President and Provost of the Institute. Early in his career, he was a
research fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute from 1976-77 and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow
from 1977-79. In 1975-76 he received the Caltech Associated Students Teaching Award, and the
Humboldt Senior Scientist Award in 1985. In 1999 he received the prestigious E.O. Lawrence Award
in Physics from the Department of Energy. Koonin has served on a number of advisory committees
for the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense and
its various national laboratories. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His
research interests include theoretical nuclear, many-body, and computational physics, nuclear
astrophysics, and global environmental science.
Other Activities:
Professional Societies
American Physical Society (Fellow) American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Fellow) California Council on Science and Technology
(Fellow) APS Division of Nuclear Physics Program Committee, 1978-80 APS DNP Committee for
Contacts with the Press, 1980-82 APS DNP Executive Committee, 1981-83 APS Bonner Prize
Committee, 1985 (Chair, 1986) AAAS Nominating Committee, Physics Section, 1987-88 APS Chair of
the Division of Nuclear Physics, 1988-89 (Vice-Chair, 1987-88) Steering Committee, APS Topical
Group in Computational Physics, 1987-90 APS DNP Councilor, 1992-96 APS Executive Board, 1994-96
Laboratory and University Advisory Committees
LBL Bevalac Program Advisory Committee, 1979-82 ORNL Physics Division Visiting Committee, 1979-83,
1993 SURA Scientific Advisory Panel, 1981-82 UC Berkeley Physics Special Visiting Committee,
1981 MSU Cyclotron Program Advisory Committee, 1982-86 BNL Physics and Accelerator Division
Advisory Committee, 1983-85 ANL Physics Division Advisory Committee, 1984-87 Indiana University
Cyclotron Facility Program Advisory Committee, 1985-89 Associated Universities, Inc. Board of
Trustees, 1985-88 Advisory Board, NSF Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, 1986-90
(Chair, 1988) Steering Committee, Maryland University Project on Physics and Educational Technology,
1986 Allocation Committee, San Diego Supercomputer Center, 1986 USC ad hoc Physics Review, 1988
SLAC Nuclear Physics Program Advisory Committee, 1988-92 DOE Institute for Nuclear Theory Advisory
Committee (Chair, 1990-92) MIT Physics Visiting Committee, 1989 NSF ITP Director Search (Chair),
1993-94 " LLNL Laser and Environmental Division Advisory Board, 1993-95 NORDITA Professor Selection
Committee, 1994 University of California President's Council for the National Laboratories, 1997
University of California President's Council NIF Review Committee, 1999
Journals and Conferences
Senior Referee, Physical Review Letters, 1981 Coordinator, Nuclear Theory Program, Institute for
Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, 1982 Associate Editor, Nuclear Physics A, 1982-97 Editorial Board,
Physical Review C, 1983-86 Vice-Chair, Nuclear Structure Gordon Conference, 1983 Chair, Nuclear
Structure Gordon Conference, 1984 Editorial Committee, Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
1989- 94 Editorial Board, International Journal of Modern Physics C, 1989 Editorial Council,
Annals of Physics, 1990
Federal and Other Advisory Committees
NUSAC Subcommittee for Heavy-Ion Facilities, 198l NUSAC Subcommittee for Computational Needs of
Nuclear Theory, 1981 DOE Nuclear Theory Review, 1981 DOE Heavy-Ion Users Review, 1982 NUSAC Panel
on Electron Accelerator Facilities, 1983 NUSAC Long-Range Plan Working Group, 1983 NAS Physics Survey
Subpanel on Nuclear Physics, 1983-84 " NUSAC Subcommittee on the Scientific Justification for a 4 GeV CW
Electron Accelerator, 1984 NUSAC ad hoc Subcommittee for Computing, 1984 NSF Physics Division Advisory
Committee, 1985 88 Institute for Defense Analysis, Defense Sciences Study Group, 1986-88 (Mentor,
1992-1999; Advisor 1999- ) Committee of Examiners for the Graduate Record Exam, Educational Testing
Service, 1986-89 NUSAC Subcommittee for Nuclear Theory (Chair), 1987 JASON Study Group, 1988- DOE
Advisory Panel on Cold Fusion, 1989 NAS Second Review of Inertial Confinement Fusion (Chair), 1989-90
NAS Panel on Basic Nuclear Data Compilation, 1989-90 DSB Task Force on Strategic Sensors, 1990 DOE/NSF
Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, 1990-92 NRC Board on Physics and Astronomy, 1990-93 SEAB Task Force
on Energy Research Priorities, 1991-92 DOE Hydrotest Program Assessment, 1991-92 EPRI Review on Anomalous
Nuclear Measurements in Deuterium/Metal Systems (Chair), 1991 DOE Inertial Confinement Fusion Advisory
Committee, 1992-95 Defense Science Board, 1992-96 Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, 1994-96
NAS Committee for the Review of the DoE Inertial Confinement Fusion Program (Chair), 1996-97 SEAB Task
Force on Fusion Energy, 1998-99
Awards:
- George Green Prize for Creative Scholarship, Caltech, 1972
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1972-75
- Associated Students of Caltech Teaching Award, 1975-76
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1977-81
- Senior U.S. Scientist Award (Humboldt Prize) 1985-87
- Fusion Power Associates Leadership Award, 1994
- Department of Energy Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, 1998
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GLOBAL LEADER of OCEANOGRAPHY joins the Foundation as a Consultant Member |
Dr. Charles F. Kennel |
Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego and Chair,
Committee on Global Change Research, National Research Council, The National Academies |
Charles F. Kennel assumed his position as Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Vice Chancellor Marine
Sciences, UC San Diego in 1998. He received a Ph.D in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University (1964). He
was a tenured member of the UCLA Department of Physics since 1967, member of UCLA's Institute of Geophysics and
Planetary Physics, 1971; Associate Director of UCLA's Institute for Plasma Physics and Fusion Research; Associate
Administrator at Mission to Planet Earth, NASA, 1993-96; and in 1996, became Executive Vice Chancellor at UCLA.
Kennel is author or co-author of experimental and theoretical publications in his field. He has been a Fulbright
and Guggenheim scholar, and a Fairchild Professor at Caltech. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the
American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the
International Academy of Astronautics, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and the American Philosophical Society. His many awards include the NASA Distinguished Service Medal; the James
Clark Maxwell Prize, American Physical Society; and the Aurelio Peccei Prize for Environmental Science. He received
a D.Sc. with honors from the University of Alabama in 2003. He chairs the NASA Advisory Council.
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Dr. Marcia McNutt |
President and Chief Executive Officer Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute |
Marcia McNutt is a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she graduated class valedictorian from Northrop
Collegiate School in 1970. In 1973, she received a BA degree in Physics, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from
Colorado College in Colorado Springs. As a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, she next studied
geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, where she earned a PhD in Earth Sciences
in 1978.
After a brief appointment at the University of Minnesota, she spent the next three years at the US Geological
Survey in Menlo Park, California, working on the problem of earthquake prediction. In 1982, she joined the faculty
at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At MIT, she was appointed the Griswold Professor of Geophysics and served as
Director of the Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, a cooperative graduate
educational program between MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
McNutt s research ranges from studies of ocean island volcanism in French Polynesia to continental break-up in
the Western U.S. to uplift of the Tibet Plateau. She has participated in 15 major oceanographic expeditions, and
served as chief scientist on more than half of those voyages. She has published 90 peer-reviewed scientific articles.
McNutt s honors and awards include membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society,
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She also holds honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota
and from Colorado College. In 1988, McNutt won the Macelwane Award from the American Geophysical Union, presented for
outstanding research by a young scientist. She has been honored as the Scientist of the Year from the ARCS Foundation
(2003) and as the Outstanding Alumnus from the University of California at San Diego (2004). She is a fellow of the
American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
and the International Association of Geodesy.
McNutt served as President of the American Geophysical Union from 2000-2002. She also chaired the President s Panel
on Ocean Exploration, convened by President Clinton to examine the possibility of initiating a major U.S. program in
exploring the oceans. She currently serves on numerous evaluation and advisory boards for institutions such as the
Monterey Bay Aquarium, Stanford University, Harvard University, Science Magazine, and Schlumberger.
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World Authority in combating Avian Flu joins the Foundation as a Consultant Member |
Professor Dr. Ken F.S. Shortridge |
Emeritus Professor Kennedy Shortridge is a pioneer in researching the potentially deadly disease "bird flu " , leading
to the establishment of preparation systems to deal with future outbreaks.
Professor Shortridge, a University of Queensland graduate, moved to Hong Kong in 1972 after completing his PhD at The
University of London in 1971, commencing studies in 1975 into how avian influenza viruses spread to humans.
His studies drew attention to the importance of domestic poultry and pigs as the most likely sources of virus for
humans.
His findings, including the hypothesis in 1982 of southern China's role as an epicentre for the emergence of pandemic
influenza viruses, enabled the development of surveillance and preparation systems for future outbreaks.
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Dr. Shortridge receiving a life-Fellowship from WIF Member Dr. Tsui Lap-Chee, Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong
University October 2005 |
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Professor Shortridge's work was crucial to the early detection of the H5N1 "bird flu " outbreak in 1997, potentially
saving incalculable lives.
Professor Shortridge recently retired from HKU`s Department of Microbiology.
Professor Shortridge's vital work earned him a Prince Mahidol Award in Public Health in 1999 for services to the
global community toward the control of "bird flu ".
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WORLD Authority on TRADITIONAL MEDICINES Joins the Foundation as a Consultant Member |
Dr. Walter H. Lewis |
Dr. Lewis's research emphasizes medical ethnobotany in South America among the Jivaro peoples of the upper Amazon
basin. This involves learning their traditional medicine by understanding about the many plants used as therapeutics
to treat a wide range of diseases. Extracts of these targeted plants are then tested in specific biodirected assays
and those found active are fractioned and chemically characterized in search of new compounds effective in treating
malaria, tuberculosis, and other diseases.
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Collecting and preparing anti-malarial and other plant material with the Aguaruna Jivaros in the rainforest of
northern Peru.
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Secretary-General of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) joins the Foundation as a Consultant
Member |
Dr. Julio E. Celis |
Dr.Celis is the FEBS Secretary General and Institute of Cancer Biology and Danish Centre for Human Genome
Research, Denmark.
He is Director of the Institute of Cancer Biology at the Danish Cancer Society in Copenhagen. Apart from
being President of the European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC), of the European Life Sciences Forum (ELSF),
and a member of numerous academic societies and scientific committees worldwide, Secretary General of the Federation
of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS). In his work for FEBS, he has made it a priority to improve communication
between scientists and the public, to support young scientists, and to network with other organizations worldwide.
In this context he is e.g. extensively involved in work related to the European Research Area and the establishment
of a European Research Council (ERC).
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