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James J. Duderstadt University Professor of Science and Engineering
BS in electrical engineering, Yale; Ph.D. in engineering science and physics, California Institute of Technology
(734) 647-7300
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E-mail: jjd@umich.edu
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James J. Duderstadt is president emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan.
After a year as an Atomic Energy Commission Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech, Duderstadt joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1968 in the Department of Nuclear Engineering. He became dean of the College of Engineering in 1981 and provost and vice president for academic affairs in 1986. He was appointed as president of the University of Michigan in 1988, and served in this role until July 1996. He currently holds a university-wide faculty appointment as University Professor of Science and Engineering, directing the University’s program in Science, Technology, and Public Policy, and chairing the Michigan Energy Research Council coordinating energy research on the campus.
Duderstadt's teaching and research interests have spanned a wide range of subjects in science, mathematics, and engineering, including work in areas such as nuclear fission reactors, thermonuclear fusion, high-powered lasers, computer simulation, information technology, and policy development in areas such as energy, education, and science.
During his career, Duderstadt has received numerous national awards for his research, teaching, and service activities, including the E.O. Lawrence Award for excellence in nuclear research, the Arthur Holly Compton Prize for outstanding teaching, the Reginald Wilson Award for national leadership in achieving diversity, and the National Medal of Technology for exemplary service to the nation. He has been elected to numerous honorific societies including the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Science, Phi Beta Kappa, and Tau Beta Pi.
Duderstadt has served on and/or chaired numerous public and private boards. These include the National Science Board; the Executive Council of the National Academy of Engineering, the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences; the Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee of the Department of Energy, the Big Ten Athletic Conference; the University of Michigan Hospitals, Unisys, and CMS Energy.
He currently serves on or chairs several major national study commissions in areas including federal science policy, higher education, information technology, and energy sciences, including NSF’s Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure, the National Commission on the Future of Higher Education, the AGB Task Force on the State of the University Presidency, the Intelligence Science Board, and the Executive Board of the AAAS.
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