Albert Carnesale

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Fiat Lux, which means "Let there be light." [23] The program of 200 seminars was established to help students understand the events of September 11. The seminars enabled small, interdisciplinary groups of students to explore critical issues with faculty. Carnesale taught a seminar on national security. [24]

As chancellor, Carnesale oversaw the completion of a $3.1 billion fundraising campaign—at the time the most ambitious in the history of higher education. He also launched the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI), the Broad Stem Cell Research Institute, the Nazarian Center for Israeli Studies, and the Institute for Society and Genetics. Under his leadership, research funding from competitively awarded grants and contracts doubled, and UCLA formed more than 100 partnerships through Carnesale's "UCLA in L.A." initiative. During this time, the university took major steps toward transformation from a commuter school to a residential campus. From 1997 to 2005, UCLA completed or had under construction new housing for more than 4,600 undergraduate and graduate students. [25] Other additions to the campus included the UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, Broad Art Center and new buildings for health sciences, physics, engineering, and CNSI. In addition, Glorya Kaufman Hall, Haines Hall, and the Humanities Building were renovated. Construction began on the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. UCLA Athletics added 23 NCAA titles. [26]

When Carnesale announced that he was stepping down in 2006, he said he had missed teaching and policymaking and that his decision was prompted in part by current events. He said there were relatively few people working in national security who had Ph.D.s in fields like nuclear engineering. "If you're worried about nuclear proliferation and weapons of mass destruction and the like, and can bring that technical background as well as the policy background in international affairs and security . . . It's a comparative advantage that I have in an area that's terribly important to the country right now. [27] When he stepped down, he took a year-long sabbatical and then resumed teaching in UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs and Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. In 2013, a new building in the residential portion of the UCLA campus was named Robin and Albert Carnesale Commons in honor of the chancellor emeritus and his wife. The building houses one of the nation's first health-themed dining halls, as well as a fitness hall and multipurpose space. [26]

Government and public policy

From 1969 to 1972 Carnesale served as chief of the Defensive Weapons Systems Division, Science and Technology Bureau of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in Washington, D.C. [8] From 1970 to 1972, he was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) with the Soviet Union -- a major step towards controlling nuclear weapons.

Between 1977 and 1980, he led the U.S. delegation to the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (INFCE). This 66-nation multilateral meeting was intended to investigate and ultimately make recommendations regarding the relationships between civilian and military uses of nuclear energy and materials. In 1980 Carnesale was nominated by President Carter to be chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. However, Carter's term as president ended before the nomination was brought to a Senate vote. [28] At the time of Carnesale's nomination, one of his Harvard colleagues said, "He's really perfect for the job. First, he's got a technical background--he's not a political appointee. At the same time, he can communicate complex technical issues in a way that is understandable to lay audiences." [29] In 1995, President Clinton appointed Carnesale to the Scientific and Policy Advisory Committee of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. [30]

In 2009, Carnesale chaired a National Academies committee overseeing efforts to outline "America's Climate Choices" at the request of Congress. [31] When the committee submitted their report, in 2011, Carnesale said, [Climate change] is an urgent problem to turn to, and what we've done differently is look at this as a risk management problem. We don't know exactly when the tsunami will hit or how high it will be, but we know it is coming, and we should prepare." [32] In 2010 the U.S. Department of Energy appointed Carnesale to a high-level national commission on nuclear waste production, the 15-person Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future. Carnesale said the issues before the commission related "not only to nuclear power and reduced dependence on fossil fuels but also to climate change and nuclear proliferation." [33] In 2014, he was appointed to the U.S. Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board. [34] He also chaired the National Academies Committees [35] on NASA's Strategic Direction, on Nuclear Forensics and on the U.S. Conventional Prompt Global Strike. [36] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations [37] and the Pacific Council on International Policy. [38]

Honors

Carnesale was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 [39] and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008. [40] In 2011 he received the Harvard Medal for service to the university. [41] Also in 2011, he was elected to the Nation Academy of Engineering "for bringing engineering excellence and objectivity to international security and arms control, and for leadership in higher education." [42] In 1997, he received an honorary doctor of letters degree from NCSU. [43] He also holds honorary degrees from Harvard University (A.M.), New Jersey Institute of Technology (Sc.D.), Drexel University (LL.D.) [44] and Pardee RAND Graduate School (D.P.P). [45] In 1985, he received the Gano Dunn Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement from the Cooper Union. [46]

Selected works

  • Carnesale, Albert; Doty, Paul; Hoffman, Stanley; Huntington, Samuel P.; Nye, Joseph S.; Sagan, Scott D. (1983), Living with Nuclear Weapons, Harvard University Press and Bantam Books, ISBN   978-0674536654
  • Carnesale, Albert; Allison, Graham T; Nye, Joseph S. Jr. (1985), Hawks, Doves, and Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War, W.W. Norton, ISBN   978-0393019957
  • Carnesale, Albert; Haass, Richard N. (1987), Superpower Arms Control: Setting the Record Straight, Ballinger Publishing Company, ISBN   978-0887302299
  • Carnesale, Albert; Allison, Graham T., Nye, Joseph S., Jr. (1988), Fateful Visions: Avoiding Nuclear Catastrophe, Ballinger Publishing Company, ISBN   978-0887302725
  • Carnesale, Albert; Blackwill, Robert D. (1993), New Nuclear Nations: Consequences for U.S. Policy, Council on Foreign Relations ISBN   978-0876091531
  • Carnesale is also the author of more than 50 scholarly articles. [47]

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