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Alvin L. Crumbliss is currently Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Chemistry at Duke University, where he has held various positions since 1970. For the period 2007 – 2011 he served as Dean of Natural Sciences, and interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and Dean of Trinity College. Previous administrative positions include Chair of the Chemistry Department (1991-95) and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Chemistry (1979-82). He has held visiting faculty positions at the Université Paris–Orsay (1978, 1985, & 1989), Oxford University (1985), Ecole Européenne des Hautes Etudes des Industries Chimiques de Strasbourg (1995), Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris (1995), Université J. Fourier de Grenoble (1996, 1999), Université Paris VII (2005, 2006), the Santa Fe Institute (Sabbatical Visitor ; 2011), and the Biophysics Institute, Genoa, Italy (2012). Dr. Crumbliss was the Swiss University System Troisième Cycle Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry in 1999, the Greek Chemical Society Lecturer in 2001, and the Karcher Lecturer (Univ OK) in 2002. Since 1995 he has been an invited lecturer at 130 universities and conferences throughout the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Dr. Crumbliss is Vice Chair and Chair (2010/2012) of the Environmental BioInorganic Chemistry (EBIC) Gordon Research Conference and a member of the BioIron and BioMetals international conference organizing committees (1995, 2004, 2010). Dr. Crumbliss is a member of the Board of Directors of the JEPA-LIMMAT Foundation, Zurich Switzerland, which promotes third world economic development through the education of young scientists.
At Los Alamos National Laboratory, Hurd is the former Director of the Lujan Neutron Scattering Center at LANSCE. Prior to coming to Los Alamos in 2001, he managed various materials research areas at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque and, before joining Sandia in 1984, he was a postdoc studying liquid and colloidal crystals under Buckley Prize Winner Bob Meyer at Brandeis University. He taught physics at Brandeis and is an Adjunct Professor of physics at the University of New Mexico.
Bill Newsome is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He received a B.S. degree, summa cum laude, in physics from Stetson University and a Ph.D. in biology from the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Newsome served on the faculty of the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at SUNY Stony Brook before moving to Stanford in 1988. Dr. Newsome is a leading investigator in the fields of visual and cognitive neuroscience. He has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception and simple forms of decision making. Among his honors are the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics, the Spencer Award for highly original contributions to research in neurobiology, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the Dan David Prize of Tel Aviv University, the Karl Spencer Lashley Award of the American Philosophical Society, and the Champalimaud Vision Award. He has given numerous distinguished lectureships, including the 13th Annual Marr Lecture at the University of Cambridge the 9th Annual Brenda Milner Lecture at McGill University, and most recently, the Evnin Lecture at Princeton University. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, and to the American Philosophical Society in 2011.
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