2014 NAE Annual Meeting

In her research at the California Institute of Technology Frances H. Arnold focuses on directed evolution and protein engineering, with applications in alternative energy, chemicals, and medicine. She pioneered the “directed evolution” of proteins, mimicking Darwinian evolution in the laboratory to create new biological molecules. The ...

Robert E. Schafrik recently retired as general manager of the Materials and Process Engineering Department at GE Aviation (formerly GE Aircraft Engines) in Cincinnati, a position he held since 1999. During his tenure he and his team reduced the development time for several new materials, including low rhenium turbine blade alloy, R65 (a ...

Leonard Kleinrock is professor and chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the UCLA faculty in 1963 and since 1969 has been a UCLA principal investigator for DARPA, currently working on advanced networking and distributed systems. He led the group at UCLA when it became the first node on the ...

Roderic I. Pettigrew, PhD, MD, is the first director of the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and in 2013 was also appointed NIH’s acting chief officer for scientific workforce diversity. This position was established by the NIH director for the coordination and oversight of all NIH programs and ...

Sally Jewell was sworn in as the 51st Secretary of the Interior on April 12, 2013. With more than 70,000 employees, the Department of the Interior serves as steward for approximately 20 percent of the nation’s lands, including national parks, national wildlife refuges, and other public lands; oversees the responsible development of ...