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Thursday, September 30
The colloquium is pleased to announce that our keynote speaker
for Thursday evening will be
Richard K. Lester, founder and director of the MIT
Industrial Performance Center and a professor of nuclear
engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He will be speaking on "Innovation - The Critical Dimension in
the Global Economy"
Friday, October 1
The colloquium is pleased to announce that
William B. DeLauder,
President Emeritus of Delaware State University, will be our
Friday keynote speaker at the 2004 colloquium. President
DeLauder will speak on "The National Association of State
Universities and Land Grant Colleges: A New Initiative in
International Education."
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 Richard
K. Lester is the founder and
director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center and a
professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
As director of the Industrial
Performance Center, Dr. Lester works with faculty and students
from all five MIT Schools on a broad range of multidisciplinary
research projects concerning the uses of science and technology
in industry and the implications of these developments for
society and the global economy.
Professor Lester is currently
leading an international research project on the technological
transformation of local economies and the role of universities
and other public research institutions in this process. His
research team is analyzing and comparing the innovation and
economic performance of more than twenty regions in the U.S.,
U.K., Japan, Finland, and Taiwan. In a related project, he and
his colleagues are investigating the consequences of
globalization and industrial re-organization for productivity,
innovation and job creation in five major industries in North
America, Europe, and Asia.
Dr. Lester’s recent books
include Making Technology Work: Applications in Energy and
the Environment (Cambridge University Press, 2003),
co-authored with John M. Deutch, The Productive Edge
(Norton, 1998), an analysis of America’s industrial
resurgence during the 1990s, Made By Hong Kong (Oxford
University Press, 1997) co-authored with Suzanne Berger, and
Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge (MIT Press,
Cambridge, 1989), co-authored with Michael Dertouzos and Robert
Solow. (With over 300,000 copies in print in eight languages,
Made in America is the best-selling title in the history of
MIT Press.) His latest book Innovation – The Missing
Dimension (Harvard, fall 2004), co-authored with Michael J.
Piore, proposes a new framework for developing and sustaining
the sources of creativity and innovation in the U.S. economy.
Professor Lester obtained his
undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Imperial
College, London (1974), and was awarded a Kennedy Scholarship to
study at MIT, where he received a doctorate in nuclear
engineering. He has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1979.
Earlier in his career, Dr.
Lester became internationally known for his research on the
management and control of nuclear technology, and he continues
to teach and supervise students in the field of energy and the
environment. He is the co-author of Radioactive Waste:
Management and Regulation (Free Press, 1978).
Professor Lester serves as an advisor or
consultant to corporations, governments, and private foundations
and non-profit groups, and lectures frequently to academic,
business and general audiences throughout the world.
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 On
July 1, 2003 Dr. William B.
DeLauder completed sixteen years as President of Delaware
State University. During his tenure on the Dover campus, Dr.
DeLauder centered his efforts on quality academic programs and
enhancement of the institution's growth and development.
Before his
appointment at Delaware State University, Dr. DeLauder was Dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences at North Carolina A&T State
University in Greensboro, North Carolina. Prior to his
appointment as Dean in 1981, he served as professor and chair of
the Department of Chemistry at N.C. A&T. Dr. DeLauder served as
an officer (highest rank was Captain) in the U.S. Army for about
four and one-half years.
Dr. DeLauder is a
member of the Board for International Food and Agriculture
Development (BIFAD), the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty
in Africa, the Advisory Committee of the Association Liaison
Office (ALO) for University Cooperation in Development, a member
of the Advisory Committee for the Education and Human Resources
Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Senior
Council of the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce, the Board of
Directors of United Way of Delaware, and numerous other civic
and social organizations. He currently chairs a NASULGC Task
Force on International Education.
Dr. DeLauder
previously served on the North Carolina Board of Science and
Technology; the MARC Review Committee and the National Advisory
Council of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of
NIH; the Board on Agriculture of the National Research Council,
the Board of Directors of the National Association of State
Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC); the Board of
Directors of the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA);
member, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education of the
Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges (served two
years as chair), the USDA/1890 Task Force (served as chair for
several years), and has been a member of numerous other
committees or commissions of higher education associations.
In March 1994, Dr.
DeLauder was the recipient of the Thurgood Marshall Award for
outstanding contributions to the higher education of African
Americans. The editors of Jet and Ebony Magazines presented this
award at a nationally televised Black Achievement Award Program.
In 1995, the Delaware Chapter of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews honored him. In 1999, he was awarded the
Educational Leadership Award of the Thurgood Marshall
Scholarship Fund. Governor Ruth Ann Minner (State of Delaware)
presented Dr. DeLauder with the Order of the First State Award
on November 22, 2002. He has an honorary doctorate degree from
Kent State University and numerous other awards and honors.
Dr. DeLauder
earned the BS degree in chemistry from Morgan State College (now
University) and the Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from
Wayne State University. He did post-doctorate research in
physical biochemistry at Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire du
C.N.R.S. in Orleans-La Source, France.
Dr. DeLauder is
married to the former Vermell Faulk and they are the parents of
a son William, Jr. and a daughter, Ellen and have three
grandchildren.
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