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Kennel and John Named Chair and Vice Chair

Charles Kennel directs the UCSD Environment and Sustainability Initiative and is a distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences at Scripps. Kennel was the ninth Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Vice Chancellor of Marine Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, from 1998 to 2006.

Miriam John is the former Vice President of Sandia's California Division, a member of the Department of Defense's Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (for which she chairs the Nuclear Deterrent Transformation Panel), the National Research Council's Naval Studies Board and Board on Army Science and Technology.

New Council Members

  • Wanda Austin, President and CEO, The Aerospace Corporation
  • George Blumenthal, Chancellor, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • David Gollaher, President and CEO, California Healthcare Institute
  • William Madia, Former Senior Executive Vice President of Laboratory Operations, Battelle
  • Julie Meier Wright, President and CEO, San Diego Economic Development Corp.

New Board Members

  • Ann Arvin, Vice Provost and Dean of Research, Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University
  • Beth Burnside, Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California, Berkeley
  • Randolph Hall, Vice Provost for Research Advancement, University of Southern California
  • Stephen Mayo, Vice Provost Research and Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
  • Lawrence T. Papay, CEO and Principal, PQR, LLC

New Fellows

  • Richard Atkinson, President Emeritus, University of California
  • Sheldon Axler, Dean, College of Engineering, San Francisco State University
  • Arthur Bienenstock, Special Assistant to the President for Federal Research Policy, Stanford University
  • Lawrence B. Coleman, Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis
  • Lynn Cominsky, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Sonoma State University
  • David Goodstein, Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor, California Institute of Technology
  • Mirat D. Gurol, Blasker Chair Professor and Program Director Environmental Engineering Program, San Diego State University
  • Mark Moline, Professor of Biological Science, California Polytechnic State University
  • Lawrence T. Papay, CEO and Principal, PQR, LLC
  • John R. Weeks, Professor of Geography and Director International Population Center, San Diego State University

New Cal TAC Members

  • Sue Pritchard , Science Teacher, Washington Middle School
  • Katrina Williams, Fourth grade teacher, Steinbeck Elementary

Volume 13, Issue 1, February 2008


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