Committee on a New Government-University Partnership on

Science and Security

COMMITTEE BIOGRAPHIES

HON. JACQUES S. GANSLER (Co-Chair)
The Honorable Jacques S. Gansler, is currently Vice President for Research at the University of Maryland, and is also the first holder of the Roger C. Lipitz Chair in Public Policy and Private Enterprise. He was the former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. As the third ranking civilian at the Pentagon from 1997 to 2001, Professor Gansler was responsible for all research and development, acquisition reform, logistics, advanced technology, environmental security, defense industry, and numerous other security programs. Before joining the Administration, Dr. Gansler held a variety of positions in government and the private sector, including Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Material Acquisition), Assistant Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Electronics), Vice President of ITT, and engineering and management positions with Singer and Raytheon Corporations. Throughout his career, Dr. Gansler has written, published and taught on subjects related to his work. He is the author of Defense Conversion: Transforming the Arsenal of Democracy, MIT Press, 1995; Affording Defense, MIT Press, 1989, and The Defense Industry, MIT Press, 1980. He has published numerous articles in Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, International Security, Public Affairs, and other journals, as well as newspapers and frequent Congressional testimonies. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration

ALICE GAST (Co-Chair) –NAE
Alice Gast is currently the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as the Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering. Prior to beginning at M.I.T. in November 2001, Alice was Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, where she taught for sixteen years. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University, where she was a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellow, and her B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Southern California, where she was valedictorian of her senior class. She is currently a member of, among others, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the American Physical Society. Her current areas of research interest include the physics of complex fluids, colloidal suspensions, micelles and emulsions.

HON. ARTHUR I. BIENENSTOCK
Honorable Arthur I. Bienenstock, B.S. (Physics), Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; M.S. (Physics), Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; Ph.D. (Applied Physics), Harvard University, is Vice Provost and Dean of Research and Graduate Policy, Stanford. He is immediate past Director of Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University. Previously he was Associate Director for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the (U.S.) President (1997-2000); Director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford University (1978-1997); Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs (1972-1977), Stanford University; Member of the Stanford University Faculty since 1967. He is the recipient of the Sidhu Award of the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society; the Distinguished Alumnus citation of Polytechnic Institute of New York Alumni Association, and the Rector’s Lecture and Medal, University of Helsinki, 1994. In 1998 he received an honorary Ph.D. from Polytechnic University. His National Academies service includes current membership on the Committee on Smaller Facilities and on the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology. He served previously on the Forum on Diversity in the Engineering Workforce; Committee on Physics of the Universe; Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics, among other activities. He is a Fellow, American Physical Society; Fellow, AAAS; Member, American Crystallographic Association, the Materials Research Society, New York Academy of Science, and Sigma Xi.

LOUANN CRAWFORD BURNETT
LouAnn Burnett is the is an assistant director for the Environmental Health & Safety department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She manages the biological safety and occupational hygiene program and serves as the Biological Safety Officer for Vanderbilt. Before moving to Vanderbilt in 1999, she spent six years as head of Biological Safety at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. LouAnn holds a B.S. Biology from New Mexico Tech and a M.S. Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has also worked as an environmental scientist for the Illinois Pollution Control Board and as a research biologist for the Illinois Natural History Survey. LouAnn is the 2003 recipient of the American Biological Safety Association’s Everett Hanel, Jr. Presidential award and is an active ABSA member where she serves as Team Leader for the Professional Development team.

KAREN S. COOK
Karen S. Cook is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology. She joined the faculty of the Department of Sociology in academic year 1998-1999. She became Cognizant Dean of the Social Sciences in 2001. Before coming to Stanford she was at the University of Washington, where she was chair of the Department of Sociology from 1993 to 1995 and director of the Laboratory for Sociological Research. In 1995 she became the James B. Duke Professor of Sociology at Duke University, where she also served as the director of the Laboratory for Social Research in the Department of Sociology. Professor Cook was elected president of the Pacific Sociological Association in 1990-1991, and in 1994-1995 she was elected vice president of the American Sociological Association. She also has served as vice-president of the International Institute of Sociology and as chair of Research Committee 42 (social psychology) in the International Sociological Association. In 1996 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1998-1999, she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. In 2004, she received the Cooley-Mead Award for contributions to Social Psychology from the American Sociological Association. Professor Cook has a long-standing interest in social exchange, bargaining, and social justice and is currently involved in a large interdisciplinary project focusing on trust in social relations. She has edited a number of books, including, The Limits of Rationality (co-edited with Margaret Levi, 1990), Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology (co-edited with Gary Alan Fine and James S. House, 1995), Trust in Society (2001), and Trust and Distrust in Organizations (co-edited with Roderick Kramer in 2004). Currently she also serves as co-editor (with Doug Massey) of the Annual Review of Sociology (1998-2005). In the past, she has served on many editorial boards and as editor of Social Psychology Quarterly (1998-1992). Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation, and articles based on this work have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, Social Psychology Quarterly, and other journals in sociology. Professor Cook received her B.A. (1968), M.A. (1970), and Ph.D. (1973) from Stanford.

GEN. JOHN A. GORDON
General John A. Gordon (U.S. Air Force, Retired) served in the White House as the President’s Homeland Security Advisor from June 2003 until June 2004 and as the Deputy National Security Advisor for Counter Terrorism and the National Director for Counter Terrorism from June 2002 to June 2003. Prior to joining the White House team, General Gordon was the first administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration and Undersecretary of Energy, responsible for the entirety of the nation’s nuclear weapons program, serving from June 2000 until June 2002. As an Air Force four-star general, he was the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from October 1997 until June 2000. General Gordon’s thirty-two year Air Force career included significant concentration on research and development, strategic planning, missile and space operations, inter-governmental operations, and international negotiations. General Gordon holds a M.S. degree in physics and an M.A. degree in business administration. General Gordon is a now private consultant and serves on the boards of several corporations and non-profit organizations.

SEN. GARY HART
Since retiring from the United States Senate, Gary Hart has been extensively involved in international law and business, as a strategic advisor to major U.S. corporations, and as an author and lecturer. He is Senior Counsel to Coudert Brothers, a multinational law firm with offices in thirty-two cities located in nineteen countries around the world. He was co-chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century. The Commission performed the most comprehensive review of national security since 1947, predicted the terrorist attacks on America, and proposed a sweeping overhaul of U.S. national security structures and policies for the post-Cold War new century and the age of terrorism. He was president of Global Green, the U.S. affiliate of Mikhail Gorbachev's environmental foundation, Green Cross International. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund; a former member of the Defense Policy Board; and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was co-chair of the Council task force that produced the report: “America Unprepared—America Still at Risk”, in October, 2002. Gary Hart has been Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Chatham Lecturer, and McCallum Memorial Lecturer at Oxford University, Global Fund Lecturer at Yale University, and Regents Lecturer at the University of California. He earned a doctor of philosophy degree from Oxford University and graduate law and divinity degrees from Yale University. He was visiting lecturer at the Yale Law School and is the author of sixteen books. Gary Hart represented the State of Colorado in the United States Senate from 1975 to 1987. In 1984 and 1988, he was a candidate for his party's nomination for President. Senator Hart was first elected to the Senate in 1974, having never before sought public office, and was re-elected in 1980. During his 12 years in the Senate, he served on the Armed Services Committee, where he specialized in nuclear arms control and was an original founder of the military reform caucus. He also served on the Senate Environment Committee, Budget Committee, and Intelligence Oversight Committee. During his Senate years, he played a leadership role in major environmental and conservation legislation, military reform initiatives, new initiatives to advance the information revolution and new directions in foreign policy. He is widely-recognized as among the first to forecast the end of the Cold War.

MICHAEL J. IMPERIALE
Dr. Michael Imperiale is a native of New York City. He received his undergraduate and graduate training at Columbia University, receiving a B.A. in 1976, M.A. in 1978, and Ph.D. in 1981, all in Biological Sciences. His graduate dissertation was an examination of the specificity of individual helper T lymphocytes during the humoral immune response. He then moved to The Rockefeller University, where he first became interested in viruses, studying gene regulation in the human pathogen, adenovirus. During that time he was supported by postdoctoral fellowships from the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund and the National Institutes of Health. In 1984, Dr. Imperiale joined the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School as the Arthur F. Thurnau Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990 and to Professor in 1996. Most recently, he served as Interim Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology (January, 2003 - June, 2004). Dr. Imperiale is also the Chair of the Institutional Biosafety Committee at the University of Michigan, a position he has held since 2000. In 2005, Dr. Imperiale was appointed to the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity. Dr. Imperiale’s research interests focus on the study of DNA tumor viruses. He has made important contributions to our understanding of how these viruses regulate expression of their genes, how they contribute to oncogenesis, and how they interact with the infected cell in order to cause acute disease. Most recently his laboratory has been examining how these viruses assemble as well as exploring the use of adenovirus as a vector for gene therapy and vaccination against infectious diseases. Dr. Imperiale’s work has been funded by the NIH and other federal and private agencies, and has been published in leading journals in the field. He has presented his fundings at numerous national and international conferences. He has also served on various NIH grant review panels and is currently a member of the National Gene Vector Laboratories Steering Committee.

HON. RICHARD MESERVE –NAE
Richard A. Meserve, J.D., Harvard Law School; Ph.D. (Applied Physics) Stanford University, is President, Carnegie Institution of Washington. Before assuming the Carnegie presidency in April 2003, he was Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), having served since October 1999 under both Presidents Clinton and Bush. Before joining the NRC, Dr. Meserve was a partner in the law firm of Covington & Burling and he now also serves as Senior Of Counsel to the firm. His legal practice focused on nuclear-related issues, technical issues arising in environmental and toxic tort litigation, and counseling scientific societies and high-tech companies. Early in his career, he served as legal counsel to the President’s science advisor, and was a law clerk to Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court and to Judge Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Philosophical Society and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and the American Physical Society. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Universities Research Association, Inc. He has previously served on numerous committees and boards of the National Academies, including (1) Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (vice chair); (2) Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources; (3) Committee on Balancing Scientific Openness and National Security (chair); (4) Committee on Upgrading Russian Capabilities for Controlling Highly Enriched Uranium and Plutonium (chair); (5) Steering Committee of the Trilateral Workshop on Atmospheric Change and the North American Transportation Sector; (6) Committee on Dual-Use Technologies, Export Controls, and Materials Protection, Control, and Accountability (chair); (7) Panel on DOE Declassification Policy and Practice; (8) Committee on Declassification of Information for DOE’s Environmental Remediation and Related Programs (chair); (9) Energy Engineering Board (vice chair); (10) Committee on Fuel Economy of Automobiles and Light Trucks (chair); (11) Study on Scientific Responsibility and the Conduct of Science; (12) Panel on Cooperation with the USSR on Reactor Safety (chair); (13) Committee to Provide Interim Oversight of the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex (chair); (14) Committee to Assess Safety and Technical Issues at DOE Reactors (chair); (15) Panel on the Impact of National Security Controls on International Technology Transfer; and (16) Panel on Scientific Communication and National Security. Dr. Meserve was a member of the National Academies planning committee that initiated the 1997 Academy Symposium on Science, Technology, and Law. He wrote the amicus briefs on behalf of the National Academy of Engineering in the Kumho case and on behalf of the National Academy of Sciences in the Daubert case. These landmark cases established the basis for admitting expert testimony into court. Dr. Meserve currently serves as a member of the National Academies Science, Technology, and Law Panel, and was recently asked to serve as a member of the Roundtable on Scientific Communication and National Security, and as a member of the Committee on Indigenization of Programs to Prevent Leakage of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium from Russia.

JULIE T. NORRIS
Julie T. Norris is currently is an independent consultant as well as having an affiliation with Huron Consulting Group. She previously served as the Director of the Office of Sponsored Programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1994-2004. Her responsibilities at MIT included management of the full spectrum of both pre- and post-award activities in the area of sponsored programs and compliance, including responsibility for the preparation and negotiation of the Institute’s F&A cost proposal and other cost analysis activities. Previous to MIT she worked at the University of Houston for 21 years serving in various positions including Director. Ms. Norris was a member of the Council on Governmental Relations. She served on COGR's board from 1982-1988, 1989-1990, and 1992-1998. During that time she served at various times as Chairman of the Board, as chair of the Grant and Contract Policy Committee, and as chair of COGR’s Costing Policies committee, and as chair of the Research Administration and Compliance Committee. Julie has served NCURA as the treasurer, vice president, and president. She served on the research team for the study entitled "Financing and Managing University Research Equipment" which was produced by the AAU, NASULGC, and COGR and consults with NSF on their Research Facilities and Expenditures studies. She is the primary contributor to the COGR document Managing Externally Funded Programs at Colleges and Universities and one of the authors of the recently revised NCURA Regulation and Compliance Handbook: 2005. In addition she is one of the authors of AIS’ A Guide to Managing Federal Grants for Colleges and Universities. Ms. Norris was the first recipient of NCURA's award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Administration.

ELIZABETH RINDSKOPF PARKER
Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker joined Pacific/McGeorge as its eighth dean in 2003 from her position as General Counsel for the 26-campus University of Wisconsin System. Her fields of expertise, in addition to the law of national security and terrorism, include international relations, public policy and trade, technology development and transfer, commerce, and litigation in the areas of civil rights and liberties. Dean Rindskopf Parker’s expertise in national security and terrorism comes from 11 years of federal service, first as general counsel of the National Security Agency (1984 – 1989), then as principal deputy legal adviser at the U.S. Department of State (1989 – 1990), and as general counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency (1990 – 1995). From 1979 to 1981, Dean Rindskopf Parker served as acting assistant director for mergers and acquisitions at the Federal Trade Commission. In addition to her experience managing government legal offices, Dean Rindskopf Parker also served as Director of the New Haven Legal Assistance Association, Inc. Early in her career, she gained significant expertise with a wide variety of complex federal litigation, raising discrimination and civil liberties issues at all levels of the federal court system, including two successful arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court while a cooperating attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. She has also handled substantial commercial litigation, as well as international arbitration before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and the International Chamber of Commerce (Paris). While at the international law firm of Bryan Cave, LLP, Dean Rindskopf Parker counseled clients on public policy and international trade issues, particularly in the areas of encryption and advanced technology, U.S.-Sino relations and nuclear nonproliferation. A member of the American Bar Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations, and former Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, Dean Parker is a frequent speaker and lecturer and has taught national security law at Case Western Reserve Law School, Cleveland State School of Law and Pacific/McGeorge. Currently, she serves on several committees of the National Academy of Sciences, including the Roundtable on Scientific Communication and National Security, and the Commission on Scientific Communication and National Security, examining responses to terrorism.