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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 123-128
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Dr. Spencer is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and serves on numerous advisory groups and boards.
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in Washington, DC, and oversaw programs at the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Smithsonian Institution, Office of Science and Technology Policy, and National Gallery of Art. She had a prominent role in developing and implementing civil space policy as well as monitoring and evaluating federal research and development, including education.
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As director of the New Mexico Consortium's Institute for Advanced Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he has worked to fund major conferences and summer schools in quantitative biology, information science and technology, energy and environment, and astrophysics and cosmology. He has chaired the Fundamental Physical Sciences Panel for the Committee for the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space with the National Academies.
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Dr. King is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has received major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Chemical Society, American Society for Engineering Education, and Council for Chemical Research.
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In 1969 he began a series of administrative posts in government and higher education that included posts as a White House fellow; dean of the College of Engineering at Howard University in Washington, D.C.; assistant secretary of the Army for Research, Development and Acquisition; and vice president of research and graduate studies at Michigan State University, among others.
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He served on numerous scientific advisory boards for biotechnology companies. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine and also a fellow of the Royal Society of London.
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