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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Pages 121-127

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From page 121...
... In 1987 he was promoted to distinguished member of the technical staff and technical manager. His efforts broadened to include projects on polymer-surface interactions; adhesion promotion; corrosion protection; chemical vapor deposition and thin film growth; optical fiber coating; synthesis, structure, and reactivity of model organic surfaces; and time-resolved surface vibrational spectroscopy.
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From page 122...
... This office is responsible for an annual investment of approximately $300 million toward the development of technologies for biological warfare defense, biology, defense applications of advanced mathematics, and materials and devices for new military capabilities. In March 2000, Dubois joined SRI International as vice president and head of the Physical Sciences Division, a group of over 150 scientists and engineers focusing on the development and commercialization of advanced materials, microfabrication technologies, power sources, biological warfare defense.
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From page 123...
... Good received the National Science Foundation's Distinguished Public Service Award, the Albert Fox Demers Medal Award from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Award, and the American Institute of Chemists' Gold Medal and was chosen Scientist of the Year by Industrial Research and Development magazine. She was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1990, became a member of the Tau Beta Pi Association (the Engineering Honor Society)
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From page 124...
... Koehn has been a member of the boards of directors of several organizations, including the Council on Biotechnology, the Association of Biotechnology Companies, the Long Island Forum for Technology, the Long Island High Technology Incubator Management Corporation, the New York Biotechnology Association, the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, the Organization of Tropical Studies, the Advisory Council to the Vice-Chair of the New York Legislative Commission on Science and Technology, and the Commission on Biomedical Research of the New York Academy of Medicine. In Utah he served 8 years on the Governor's Council on Science and Technology and as president of the University of Utah Research Foundation, Inc.
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From page 125...
... He was vice chairman of the Microelectronics and Computer Consortium, on the Board of Directors of the Semiconductor Research Corporation, and a director of the Albany Medical Center, Level One Corporation, and NeuStar Corporation. Elsa Reichmanis, director of materials research department at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, NJ, is president of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.
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From page 126...
... Venkatasubramanian's research contributions have been in the areas of process fault diagnosis and supervisory control, hazard and safety analysis, operating procedures synthesis for batch processes, product formulation and design, complex adaptive systems, using knowledge-based systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms, mathematical programming, and statistical approaches. His teaching interests include courses in artificial intelligence, process design and control, statistical thermodynamics, and applied statistics.
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From page 127...
... Via began his career with Stauffer Chemical Company in 1970 and, with its acquisition by Akzo Nobel in 1987, became part of the R&D leadership team. He directed Akzo Nobel's Corporate Research-US to capture emerging technology in catalysis, advanced materials, electronic chemicals, immuno-diagnostics, and biochemistry.
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