Ron McNair Symposium on Science Frontiers
The role of HBCU's in the 21st Century Higher Education
January 28, 2002
NC A&T State University
Memorial Union, Stallings Ballroom

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Warren Buck, Chancellor University of Washington, Bothell
Keith Jackson, President-Elect, National Society of Black Physicists Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Keith Baker, Director Physics Frontiers Hampton University
Calvin Howell Duke University 

 Brief Biographies of the invited speakers

Dr. Warren Buck, Chancellor , University of Washington, Bothell

Since July 1999, Warren W. Buck has been Chancellor of the University of Washington Bothell, one of three University of Washington campuses, located 15 miles northeast of downtown Seattle. The University of Washington Bothell is co-located on the same property with Cascadia Community College, the only such co-location in the state of Washington.

Prior to his joining the University of Washington, Buck was Founding Director of the predominantly National Science Foundation-funded Nuclear/High Energy Physics (NuHEP) Research Center of Excellence and Professor of Physics at Hampton University. The NuHEP Center faculty form one of the leading edge research groups in nuclear physics today.

Buck is the recipient of the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Mathematics, Science and Engineering (MSE) Network 2001 Giants in Science Award. The award recognizes outstanding students, teachers, education programs, and community initiatives.

While receiving the Ph.D degree in theoretical high-energy nuclear physics from the College of William and Mary, Buck was the Founding President of the Black Student Organization and a National Science Foundation Fellowship graduate student.

Buck is an internationally known theoretical physicist and a Fellow and Life Member and former chair of the Committee on Education of the American Physical Society. He is also a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa leadership fraternity.

Buck serves on the Board of Directors of the Washington Technical Center, the United Way of King County, and on the Board of Directors of the William and Mary Society of the Alumni. Buck also serves on the Board of Directors of the Northshore and Bellevue Chambers of Commerce.

Enjoying an eclectic life, Buck is an accomplished artist and yachtsman. He and his wife, Linda A. Horn, also an artist, supported themselves in the early eighties, as they sailed motorless for three years on their trimaran, Shadowfax. Buck and his wife have two children. 

Dr Keith Jackson , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

After his graduate work was completed, Dr. Jackson joined the staff of Hewlett Packard Laboratories. At Hewlett Packard as a member of the Gate Dielectric group, he has been involved with the development of Silicon Nitride ( Si3 N4 ) as a potential gate insulator in NMOS, and CMOS technologies. His job was to develop the necessary processing techniques required to fabricate thin nitride films on silicon substrates. This included the use of thermal, plasma, and laser based chemical vapor deposition, to grow silicon nitride. The characterization of these films required the use of Auger, SIMS, and IR spectroscopy. Dr. Jackson joined the faculty of Howard University September 2, 1983. As a member of the Solid State Electronics group he is involved in both advanced materials development the Solid State Electronics group he is involved in both advanced materials development, and characterization. This includes the growth and material analysis of single crystal silicon carbide, GaAs/AlGaAs layers,and high purity VPE GaAs using Auger electron spectroscopy. On July 27, 1988 Dr. Jackson became a Member of the Technical Staff at the Rocketdyne division of Rockwell International. At Rocketdyne he established a facility for the growth and characterization of polycrystalline diamond thin films. Currently Dr. Jackson is Associate Director of the Center for X-ray Optics at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He has held that position since March 1, 1992. His current research interests include Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography , synchrotron radiation research , and the fabrication of high aspect ratio microstructures using deep etch X-ray lithography. Dr. Jackson is currently president elect of the National Society Black Physicists (NSBP).

Professor Oliver Keith Baker, Dean, School of Science Hampton University


Biographical Sketch
Oliver K. Baker

A. Professional preparation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA,  Physics, B.S. (1981), Thesis     topic: Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Physics, M.S. (1984)
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Mathematics, M.S. (1984)
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Physics, Ph.D. (1987); Dissertation topic: Nuclear Resonance Effect on Atomic Electron Capture; Advisor: W.E. Meyerhof
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, Postdoctoral Fellow, Nuclear Physics (1986-1988).

B. Appointments
Hampton University, 2000 - present, Endowed University Professor of Physics; 2001 - present, Dean of the School of Science; 1999-2000, Professor of Physics; 1993-1999, Associate Professor of Physics; 1989-1993, Assistant Professor of Physics; 1999-present, Co-Director of Center for Particle Physics (with Ken McFarlane).
Jefferson Lab, 1989 - present, Staff Physicist
Columbia University, 2000 - present, Adjunct Professor of Physics
Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1990-1992 Consultant
Wayne State University, 1993 Visiting Professor

C. Publications
More than 60 publications in refereed journals in the past 10 years.

D. Awards/Offices/Recognition
E.L. Hamm Sr. Distinguished Teaching Award, Hampton University (1994); Shell Science Seminar Speaker, NSTA (2000); National Award for Innovations in Teaching Learning and Technology (1997); Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (1998-present); Promising Professor Recognition, Blacks in Higher Education (2000).
NSF Special Emphasis Panel in Nuclear Physics (1999); NSF Committee of Visitors (2000); Lawrence Berkeley Lab NSD Review Panel (2001); Search Committee for JLAB Director (2000-2001), APS Edward Bouchet Award (2001-2002).

E. Research Experience
Electroproduction of Strangeness, multi-TeV pp collider (electroweak) physics, pseudoscalar meson electroproduction, weak production of strangeness, nuclear effects on atomic physics.  Federal funding in excess of $3 million over the past 10 years to support this research.

F. Teaching Experience
Supervision and co-supervision of seven graduate students in physics over the past nine years; three received doctoral degree, two received master's degree.  Currently supervising four graduate students.  Taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in Physics with enrollments as large as 70 students per class.
 

Professor Calvin Howell, Department of Physics Duke University

Calvin Howell received his B.S. degree with a major in physics from Davidson College in 1978 and obtained his Ph.D. degree from Duke University in 1984 with a research specialty in experimental nuclear physics.  After working for a year as a Post Doctorial Fellow at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL), he joined the physics faculty at Duke University in 1985 as an Assistant Professor.  He is currently a Professor of physics at Duke University and the Deputy Director of TUNL.  He also has an Adjunct Professor appointment in the department of physics at North Carolina Central University.  The main trusts of his research program are in the areas of reaction dynamics in few-nucleon systems and the study of subnucleon degrees of freedom.  He has coauthored more that 70 articles in nuclear physics journals and has held Visiting Scientist positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and Jefferson Laboratory.  Professor Howell demonstrates his commitment to the field of nuclear physics and to the academy through service.  He has served on the DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, on the Executive Committee of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, on several NSF grant review panels, and has contributed to the writing of two long-range plans for nuclear science in the U.S.  In 1998 he served the community as a Nuclear Physics Program Director at the National Science Foundation.  His desire to give back to his community is realized through his participation in activities that provide academic opportunities for minority students. He has served as a Faculty Coordinator for the Carolina Ohio Science Education Network, as the Faculty Coordinator for the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program at Duke University and is currently serving as the Academic Coordinator for the Minority Medical Education Program at the Duke University Medical Center.