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(Last updated 11/17/05)

 

MIT PHYSICIST, FORMER LEADING FEDERAL SCIENCE OFFICIAL, TO SPEAK

COLUMBUS – The former director of the Department of Energy's Office of Science, one of the leading federal agencies supporting university research, will speak on campus next week.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Institute Professor and professor of physics and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will discuss “Alternative Energy Sources” at 4 PM Tuesday (11/22), in the Wexner Center Film/Video Auditorium.

Dresselhaus is the second researcher invited to give the President's AAAS Distinguished Lecture, a program supporting the community of 107 faculty named as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Alan Leshner, chief executive officer for the AAAS, was the lecture series' first speaker last spring.

“We are elated that Dr. Dresselhaus has agreed to speak to our research faculty,” said Mohan Wali, professor of natural resources, director of OSU Environmental Science Graduate Program, and chair of the AAAS fellows advisory committee. “She has been an outspoken scientific leader throughout her career and held several of the most prestigious positions possible for a university researcher.”

Dresselhaus is a former president of the AAAS, former president of the American Physical Society and former treasurer for the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

She has been awarded at least 19 honorary doctorates and numerous awards including the US National Medal of Science. In 2000-2001, she directed the Office of Science in the Department of Energy.

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Contact: Earle Holland, (614) 292-8384; Holland.8@osu.edu.