Norman (Norm) Ralph Augustine is a U.S. aerospace businessman who served as United States Under Secretary of the Army from 1975 to 1977. Augustine served as chairman and CEO of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. He was chairman of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee.
Gustavus Adolphus College is a private liberal arts college in St. Peter,Minnesota. It was founded in 1862 by Swedish Americans led by Eric Norelius and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Gustavus gets its name from Gustavus Adolphus,the King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632.
William Ralph Brody is an American radiologist and academic administrator. He was the President of The Johns Hopkins University,a position which he held from 1996 to 2009 before becoming the President of the Salk Institute from 2009 to 2015.
The Arboretum at Gustavus Adolphus College,also known as TheArboretum at Gustavus or colloquially as The Arb,is on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter,Minnesota,United States. It contains a number of botanical gardens and a 125 acre arboretum with its first trees planted as small seedlings in 1973 on agricultural land. The arboretum was formerly named for Carl Linnaeus,a Swedish botanist,from 1988 to 2021.
Dame Julia Stretton Higgins is a polymer scientist. Since 1976 she has been based at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London,where she is Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator.
Padmasree Warrior is an Indian-American businesswoman and technology executive. She is known for her leadership roles in technology firms like Cisco where she served as the CTO for seven years,and at Motorola where she was the CTO for five years. She also served as the CEO of NIO USA,an electric car maker. Currently,she is the founder and CEO of Fable,a curated reading platform focused on mental wellness. She also serves on the board of directors of Microsoft and Spotify.
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is a council,chartered in each administration with a broad mandate to advise the President of the United States on science and technology. The current PCAST was established by Executive Order 13226 on September 30,2001,by President George W. Bush,was re-chartered by President Obama's April 21,2010,Executive Order 13539,and was most recently re-chartered by President Trump's October 22,2019,Executive Order 13895.
Alice Petry Gast is an American researcher,the 16th president of Imperial College London and sits on the board of directors of Chevron. Gast was named one of the top 100 "Modern Era" engineers in the US under the category of "Leadership" by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Maggie Wilderotter is the former chief executive officer of Frontier Communications,from November 2004 to April 2015;then executive chairman of the company until April 2016. During her tenure with Frontier,the company grew from a regional telephone company with customer revenues of less than $3 billion to a national broadband,voice and video provider with operations in 29 states and annualized revenues in excess of $10 billion.
George Harry Heilmeier was an American engineer,manager,and a pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays (LCDs),for which he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Heilmeier's work is an IEEE Milestone.
Jack Ohle was the President of Gustavus Adolphus College from July 2008 to June 2014. He was previously the President of Wartburg College in Waverly,Iowa,from 1998. Both institutions are part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ECLA) Colleges and Universities,and Ohle has chaired the executive committee of the Council of Presidents of ELCA Colleges and Universities.
Angela K. Wilson is an American physical,theoretical,and computational chemist. She is currently the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the department of chemistry of Michigan State University. At Michigan State University,she also serves as the Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in the College of Natural Sciences,and as Director of the MSU Center for Quantum Computing,Science,and Engineering (MSU-Q),a newly formed center at MSU,stemming from MSU's long history in quantum computing research.
Maureen Reed is a physician who was the chair of the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota,Director of the Parks and Trails Council of Minnesota,Medical Director and Vice-President of the not-for-profit health care provider HealthPartners,and Executive Director of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum. She ran as a Democrat in the sixth congressional district of Minnesota in 2010.
Melva Lind graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1923 and a Master of Arts degree in 1943. She then received the French equivalent to a Master of Arts degree from the Universitéde Lyon in Lyon,France in 1926. She went on to attend the Universitéde Paris en Sorbonne in Paris,where she earned her Doctorate in 1929. After which she attended MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis,Minnesota where she earned a Master of Music in 1937. Over the years she continued her education with two diplomas from the Universitéde Clermont-Ferrand in France in 1923 and 1924 and a scholarship from the Conservatoire de Musique in Lyon,France in 1924–1925. She also studied around the world at the Universidad de Mexico in Mexico City in 1942,a study seminar in Germany during the summer of 1964,Greece in March 1973,Israel in July 1973,and the Institut de Langue et de Littérature Françaises at the Universitéde Rennes in France during the summers of 1970–1972.
Wanda M. Austin is a former president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation,a leading architect for the nation’s national security space programs. She was both the first woman,and the first African-American,to hold this position. The Aerospace Corporation has nearly 3,600 employees and annual revenues of more than $917 million. Austin assumed this position on January 1,2008,and retired on October 1,2016. She continues as a consultant for the corporation.
Agnes Binagwaho is a Rwandan pediatrician who is the vice chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity. In 1996,she returned to Rwanda where she provided clinical care in the public sector as well as held the position of Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health of Rwanda from October 2008 until May 2011 and Minister of Health from May 2011 until July 2016. She has been a Professor of Global Health Delivery Practice since 2016 and a Professor of Pediatrics since 2017 at the University of Global Health Equity. She resides in Kigali.
Lydia Villa-Komaroff is a molecular and cellular biologist who has been an academic laboratory scientist,a university administrator,and a business woman. She was the third Mexican-American woman in the United States to receive a doctorate degree in the sciences (1975) and is a co-founding member of The Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). Her most notable discovery was in 1978 during her post-doctoral research,when she was part of a team that discovered how bacterial cells could be used to generate insulin.
Munirathna Anandakrishnan was an Indian civil engineer,educationist,a chairman of the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur and a Vice-Chancellor of Anna University. He was also an Advisor to the Government of Tamil Nadu on Information Technology and e-Governance. A winner of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil),he was honored by the Government of India,in 2002,with Padma Shri,the fourth highest Indian civilian award.
Henry C. "Hank" Foley is the current president of New York Institute of Technology,serving since June 1,2017.
Sue Brannon Clark is an environmental radiochemist. Since receiving her Doctorate in Inorganic and Radiochemistry from Florida State University in 1989,Dr Clark has worked at Washington State University where she leads a research team on the chemistry and chemical engineering of processing nuclear materials. She has also held various leadership roles at WSU,including serving as Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Interim Dean of the College of Sciences.
