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Appendix B: Panelists' Biographies
Appendix B: Panelists' Biographies
Pages 27-34
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She has also extensively covered immigration reform, substance abuse, homeland security, American foreign policy with China and Latin America, and education. She received an Emmy Award in 2004 for her work on "Exporting America," a Lou Dobbs Tonight investigation into the impact of globalization on US workers.
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Mr. Baggett studied computational linguistics with Robert Berwick in the PhD program at the MIT AI Lab, but left in 1994 to join video game company Naughty Dog, where he codeveloped the Crash Bandicoot series for the Sony PlayStation.
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He joined GE in 1983 as a staff chemical engineer and held a number of leadership roles, including head of R&D for superabrasives and of GE lighting. He received numerous GE honors: the Bronze, Silver, and Gold Patent Awards; Superabrasives Leadership Award; Plastics CEO Six Sigma Award; and election to the Whitney Gallery of Technical Achievers.
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He joined the NRL in 1968 as a research physicist in the Advanced Techniques Branch of the Electronic Warfare Division, where he conducted research on a wide range of electronic warfare topics. In 1980 he was selected to head the Off-Board Countermeasures Branch, and in 1985 he was named superintendent of the Tactical Electronic Warfare Division.
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He was the founding chair of the governing board of the Global Research Council, a virtual organization established by leading funding agencies from nearly 50 developed and developing nations to harmonize and coordinate practices that enhance international collaboration.
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In 2011 the president of India awarded him the Padma Shri, one of the highest civilian honors, for his contributions to science and technology. In 2006 Technology Review magazine selected him as a top-ten researcher whose work "will have a significant impact on business, medicine, or culture." His other honors include the 2006 Acta Materialia Gold Medal, the 2007 European Materials Medal, the 2008 Eringen Medal of the Society of Engineering Science, the 2011 Nadai Medal and 2012 Timoshenko Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from the Franklin Institute.
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, the Alan and Mildred Peterson Technology Transfer Initiative, and the Purdue Center for International Business Education and Research. She held prior faculty appointments at the University of Michigan, Ohio State University, Syracuse University, and North Carolina State University.
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