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Appendix B: Biographical Information
Pages 33-40

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... . She has received numerous awards and citations, among them the National Intelligence Medallion for Meritorious Service, Air Force Scroll of Achievement, and National Reconnaissance Office Gold Medal, as well as the AIAA von Braun Award for Excellence in Space Program Management (2010)
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... She served as NAE Councillor from 2009 to 2014, when she was elected vice president. She has been active on a number of NAE committees, currently chairs the NRC Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, and previously chaired the congressionally mandated NRC Committee on Coal Research, Technology, and Resource Assessments to Inform Energy Policy.
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... Among his many honors, he is a recipient of the Ericsson Prize, the NAE Draper Prize, the Marconi Prize, the Okawa Prize, the Dan David Prize, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal and Harry M Goode Award.
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... ARUNAVA MAJUMDAR is the Jay Precourt Professor at Stanford U ­ niversity, where he serves on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and is a senior fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy. Before joining Stanford, he was vice president for energy at Google, where he created several energy technology initiatives.
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... His awards include Phi Beta Kappa, the Benjamin E Mays Award from A Better Chance Foundation, Most Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Miami, Herbert Nickens Award of the Association of Black Cardiologists, Pritzker Distinguished Achievement Award of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Distinguished Service Award of the National Medical Association, and the Pierre Galletti Award of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.
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... at Andrews Air Force Base. He chairs the NRC National Materials and Manufac turing Board as well as the External Advisory Committee for the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Ohio State University, and is a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
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... APPENDIX B 39 Lehman Brothers; the US government's bailout plan; and the US debt ceiling and budget debate. He hosted "The Turnaround," CNN's small business improvement show; traveling across America, the show introduced troubled small business owners to high-­ rofile mentors and helped them develop a plan for p success.
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