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Appendix A: Committee and Professional Staff Biographical Information
Appendix A: Committee and Professional Staff Biographical Information
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He joined Bell Laboratories in 1966 after spending a year as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University. In 1972, he became head of the Infrared Physics and Electronics Research Department, and in 1974 director of the Chemical Physics Research Laboratory.
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His career encompasses experience in industry and higher education. He has been a member of the technical staff and department head at AT&T's Bell Laboratories, professor of electrical engineering and applied physics and dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University, provost of Rice University, and president of Case Western Reserve University.
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He won the AAS Pierce Prize in 1983. He served on the 1991 National Research Council Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee Panel on Policy Opportunities and the Task Group on Space Astronomy and Astrophysics's Panel on Galaxies and Stellar Systems.
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with majors in history and physics at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, he earned a Ph.D. in the Department of History of Science at Johns Hopkins University and later spent 2 years as a postdoctoral scholar in the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at Stanford University, with sponsorship from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
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, the American Astronomical Society Division of Planetary Sciences (past chair) , and the Planetary Society (president)
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In 1972, he went to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to head the Ross Ice Shelf Project, a multi-institutional and international research project in Antarctica. He was also involved in the formation of the Polar Ice Coring Office at Nebraska, a group that focused on ice drilling in both polar regions.
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Telson is the director of national laboratory affairs for the University of California in its Washington Office of Federal Governmental Relations. He is responsible for managing the federal regulatory and legislative issues involving the three national laboratories managed by the University of California for the US Department of Energy (DOE)
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He reported directly to Secretaries Pena, Richardson, and Abraham, advising them on all financial matters, including the preparation and execution of DOE's nearly $20 billion annual budget, and reprogramming requests in all DOE's business lines, including national security, science, energy, and environmental quality. As CFO, he directed a staff of more than 200, also covering other activities, including project-management oversight, strategic planning and the Government Performance and Results Act, privatization (including the sale of the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve, the initial public offering of stock in the US Enrichment Corporation, and several environmental management-privatization projects)
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She received a National Research Council group award for her first study for COSEPUP, on policy implications of greenhouse warming, a Commission on Life Sciences staff citation for her work in risk assessment and management, and two awards from the Policy and Global Affairs Division for her dissemination efforts for National Academies reports. Other studies have addressed human reproductive cloning, science and technology centers, international benchmarking of US research fields, graduate and postdoctoral education, responsible conduct of research, careers in science and engineering, and many environmental topics.
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He most recently headed the organizing secretariat of the World Commission on Dams, a joint initiative of the World Bank and the World Conservation Union. During 1994-1997, he was a founding member and chair of the Inspection Panel, an independent accountability mechanism established by the executive directors of the World Bank to ensure compliance with Bank policies by its management.
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