FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 10, 2003
FY03-13c
Sanchez Elected to ORAU Board of Directors
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. –Juan M. Sanchez, Vice President for Research at the University of Texas at Austin, was elected to the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Board of Directors at the 58th annual meeting of the ORAU Council of Sponsoring Institutions in Atlanta, Georgia. The board manages the property and affairs of ORAU for its membership.
Established in 1946, ORAU is a consortium of 88 doctoral-granting colleges and universities that carries out active programs with and for its members. These include efforts to increase member university involvement in corporate work initiatives, programs that facilitate interactions between senior industrial scientists and faculty and students at member institutions, and awards to junior faculty members at member universities. Sanchez has been a member of the ORAU Council since 2000.
Sanchez holds the Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
Prior to joining the University of Texas at Austin in 1989, Sanchez was Assistant Professor from1981 to 85, Associate Professor from 1985 to 87, and Professor of Materials Science from 1987 to 89 at the Columbia University. He was also Research Associate from 1977 to 79 at the University of California, Los Angeles, Visiting Professor in 1979 at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Research Associate and Lecturer from 1980 to 81 at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sanchez is the author and co-author of over 140 technical publications in materials science and engineering. He is Chairman of the Visiting Committee for Advanced Technology of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and serves on the Board of Directors of several organizations including the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, Austin Software Council, and Texas Nanotechnology Initiative. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Western Universities.
Sanchez earned his bachelor’s degree in Physics at the University of Cordoba, Argentina, and master’s degree in Materials Science and doctorate in Materials Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
A private, not-for-profit corporation, ORAU also manages and operates the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) for the U.S. Department of Energy. ORISE focuses on scientific initiatives to research health risks from occupational hazards, assess environmental cleanup, respond to radiation medical emergencies, support national security and emergency preparedness, and educate the next generation of scientists