FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 10, 2003
FY03-13d
Ewing Elected to ORAU Board of Directors
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. –Richard E. Ewing, Vice President for Research at Texas A&M University, 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. Ewing has been a member of the ORAU Council since 2001.
Ewing directs the Integrative Center for Homeland Security for the Texas A&M University System, is the co-principal investigator on the Disaster Relief and Emergency Medical Services project, which is a $10-million-a-year program. It is a collaborative initiative involving scientists, medical professionals, and engineers from the Texas A&M System and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
To his credit are more than 275 scientific publications in journals, books, and proceedings and Ewing currently serves on the editorial boards of more than 12 major national and international scientific journals.
Ewing was appointed to the NASA Advisory Council and serves on the board of directors of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Software Commercialization and Innovation Center, Houston Technology Center, Associated Western Universities, Southwestern Universities Research Association, Texas Society for Biomedical Research, and Texas Healthcare and Biosciences Institute.
Ewing earned his doctorate, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin. He has received honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Bergen, Norway and Shandong University, China.
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.