FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 10, 2003
FY03-13e
Ulaby Elected to ORAU Board of Directors
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. –Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Vice President for Research and the R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, 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.
Prior to his current position, Ulaby was the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan and founding Director of the NASA Center for Space Terahertz Technology. He has been a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 1980, member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1995, and serves on several other national scientific boards and commissions.
Ulaby has authored eight books, contributed chapters to several others, and published over 600 scientific papers and reports. His recent undergraduate textbook on Applied Electromagnetics, published by Prentice Hall in 1997, has been adopted by some 80 universities across the United States. He was the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Proceedings in 2001 and 2002, has been on the Editorial Board of IEEE Proceedings since 1995, and has been the Guest Editor of several special issues of various publications.
Ulaby earned his doctorate and master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and bachelor’s in Physics from American University, Beirut, Lebanon.
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.
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.