Four new members join Argonne Board of Governors

ARGONNE, Ill. (Feb. 1, 2005) — The University of Chicago has named four new members to its Board of Governors for the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.

The university, which operates Argonne for the Department of Energy, names the board members to oversee and guide Argonne management. Members of the board are chosen from faculty, administrators and trustees of the University of Chicago, from other universities and organizations, and from industry. In addition, the director of Argonne is an ex-officio member of the board.

The new members are Walter Massey, president of Morehouse College; Charles V. Shank, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Rick Smalley, physics professor at Rice University; and Jim Utterback, professor in the Sloan School of Management and in the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Don M. Randel, president of the University of Chicago, said that the new appointments demonstrate yet again the university's “long-standing commitment to bringing to the Argonne National Laboratory, in the national interest, the very highest standard of scientific and management talent. The university and the nation must be grateful that such distinguished people have agreed to serve."

Massey served as director of Argonne from 1979 to 1984 and was the University of Chicago's vice president for research from 1984 to 1991. He was also professor of physics at the University of Chicago during that period. He was founding chair of the Argonne National Laboratory/University of Chicago Development Corporation (ARCH) from 1986 to 1991. In 1991, he was named director of the National Science Foundation, a position he held until 1993, when he was named provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of California. In 1995, he was named president at Morehouse, from which he graduated in 1958.

Massey has served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a trustee of Brown University and Rand Corporation, co-chair of the AAAS Steering Committee for the Project to Strengthen the Scientific and Engineering Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa, a member of the National Science Board (1978-83), on the visiting committee for the physics departments of MIT and Harvard, and on the Superconducting Supercollider Site Evaluation Committee of the National Academies of Science and Engineering.

Shank served as director of Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., for 15 years, stepping down in 2004 and returning to the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a tenured professor in three departments – physics, chemistry, and electrical engineering and computer science. He remains director at large at the Berkeley laboratory, where he continues a vigorous research program and supervises a team of Berkeley graduate students studying ultrafast processes. A nationally recognized scientist and research leader, he is author or co-author of more than 200 scientific publications.

His honors include the R.W. Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America (OSA); the David Sarnoff and Morris E. Leeds awards of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); the Edgerton Award of the International Society for Optical Engineering; the John Scott Award; the Edward P. Longstreth Medal of the Franklin Society; and the George E. Pake and Arthur L. Schawlow prizes of the American Physical Society (APS). Shank was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the APS, the IEEE, and the OSA.

Smalley is a Nobel laureate (chemistry, 1996) for his discovery and characterization of fullerenes, the third elemental form of carbon after graphite and diamond. He now focuses his research on buckytubes, elongated fullerenes that are essentially a new high-tech polymer that conducts electricity. In February 2000, this research led to the start-up of a new company, Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc., which is now developing large-scale production and applications of this material. Smalley chairs the company.

In 1990, Smalley was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 1991 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he was elected a fellow in 2003. He is also a fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition to the Nobel Prize, he has received the 1991 Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics, the 1992 International Prize for New Materials, the 1992 E.O. Lawrence Award of the U.S. Department of Energy, the 1992 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry, the 1993 William H. Nichols Medal of the American Chemical Society, the 1993 John Scott Award of the City of Philadelphia, the 1994 Europhysics Prize, the 1994 Harrison Howe Award, the 1995 Madison Marshall Award, the 1996 Franklin Medal, the Distinguished Public Service Medal awarded by the U.S. Department of the Navy in 1997, the 2002 Glenn T. Seaborg Medal and the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award of Small Times Magazine.

Utterback is David J. McGrath Jr. Professor of Management and Innovation and Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since receiving a Ph.D. in 1968 from the MIT Sloan School of Management, Utterback has held faculty positions at Indiana University, the Harvard Business School and Chalmers Technical University, as well as MIT. From 1983 through 1988, he served as Director of Industrial Liaison at MIT. His research has focused on the process of technological innovation in firms in the United States and in other countries. He is author of Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation, published by Harvard Business School Press in 1994.

Utterback is one of the founding faculty of the Management of Technology Program (now called the Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership), which was the first area of study at MIT that awarded degrees jointly from the Schools of Management and Engineering. He is also one of the founders of the Leaders for Manufacturing Program, which awards dual degrees in engineering and in management, and he is currently developing a similar program in Biomedical Enterprise.

He received the D.Sc. (Hon) from Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden, and was recently elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

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