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USA : Texas University professors appointed to international think tank |
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2004-8-19
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Two professors - Ray H. Baughman and Da Hsuan Feng of University of Texas at Dallas - one a prominent research scientist and the other a high-level administrator - have been named fellows of an international think tank designed to foster innovative ideas to enhance humanity''s welfare.
Ray H. Baughman, the Robert A Welch professor of chemistry and director of the UTD NanoTech Institute, and Da Hsuan Feng, the university''s vice president for research and graduate education and a physics professor of physics, were named to the World Innovation Foundation (WIF), earlier this month.
Based in the United Kingdom, the WIF is an independent think tank dealing with science, technology, engineering and applied economics, that offers advice to governments and corporations around the world. Its membership numbers approximately 2,000 and includes many Nobel Prize winners.
Baughman came to UTD in 2001 from Honeywell International in Morristown, NJ, where he was a corporate fellow. During the past three years, he and his colleagues at the UTD NanoTech Institute have made major discoveries in such diverse areas as artificial muscles, electronic textiles, super tough carbon nanotube fibers, molecular mechanical amplifiers and electrical energy storage and harvesting.
Feng was named UTD''s first vice president for research and graduate education in 2000, and charged with rapidly building the university''s research capability. During his tenure at UTD, annual research expenditures have jumped from $16 million to $33 million. Feng also was instrumental in attracting two Nobel laureates to the UTD faculty and is developing a growing number of collaborative research relationships with other colleges and universities in the US and in other countries.
UTD, located in the midst of the Telecom Corridor, has about14,000 students. The university offers a number of bachelor''s, master''s and doctoral degree programs. The organization''s current president is Nobel laureate Jerome Karle of the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC. |
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