brief vita for introduction...

Text Box: RUSTUM ROY Brief Vita for Introductions (Please use paragraphs which are most relevant.) Position Rustum Roy is Evan Pugh Professor of the Solid State Emeritus, Professor of Geochemistry Emeritus and Professor of Science, Technology and Society at The Pennsylvania State University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Ceramics at Penn State in 1948, after receiving BS and MS degrees in Chemistry, in India. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Materials Program at Arizona State University and visiting Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona. Intra-University At Penn State, besides being the founding Director (for 23 years) of the University's interdisciplinary Materials Research Laboratory, he played a major role in establishing geochemistry, and later solid state science as academic disciplines on the campus. Since 1970 he has played the same role in creating and directing the Science, Technology and Society (STS) Program. In each of these fields Penn State is a national leader. Professional Materials Research Professor Roy is one of the nation's leading materials scientists specializing in synthesisof new (ceramic) materials. He has published over 700 papers and books covering both very basic, and applied, science. His research has been directly connected to several totally new materials which have entered the marketplace: two generations of zero expansion ceramics; magnetic garnets; synthetic clays, a large number of high pressure phases. Three major ceramic processes in worldwide use owe a great deal to his research: sol-gel, hydrothermal and glass ceramics. Most recently his lab has become the world leader in diamond and ultrahard materials synthesis and the development of the microwave sintering process. Honors He is Penn States senior member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and he also has been elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, The Engineering Academy of Japan, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy. He was the principal architect of the Materials Research Society—the world’s premier such in the field. In Japan, the world’s leader in his research field, he has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Tokyo Institute of Technology, received the International Prize of the Fine Ceramic Association and was the first foreigner ever elected to Honorary membership in the Ceramic Society of Japan. In 1993 he received the American Chemical Society’s Dupont Chemistry of Materials Award, became a Distinguished Life member of the American Ceramic Society, and became the first materials engineer to join 42 from other fields elected in 100 years, to the ASEE Hall of Fame. Professional STS Professor Roy is one of the very few active scientists who is also a science policy analyst and also a theologian-philosopher. In the STS field Professor Roy is recognized as one of its founding fathers. His specialties cover science policy, science education and the science-religion interface. He has written 2 major books and 200 articles in these fields; and has given the prestigious Hibbert Lectures in theology in London. During the last several years he has been focusing his writing and research in Integrative Medicine and it relation to science. Science Policy Roy has been involved in science policy making and analysis for two decades at the Federal and State levels, and in the private sector as first chair of the National Council of Churches Committee on Science, Technology and the Church. He has become the national "leader of the opposition" to the U.S. Establishment’s science policy, advocating re-balancing of public research and development support towards real science and engineering and away from esoteric abstract science. Roy was the only prominent scientist to campaign against the Supercollider; and shares with many other leaders the opposition to the peer review of proposals and papers. For the last decade he has become a national spokesperson for the cause of a radical redirection of math and science education first towards the goal of the technological literacy of the majority of citizens (instead of making more or better "scientists") and second towards substituting real (sense-able) science for abstract science as the core science for all non scientists. Religion and Technology Rustum Roy saw himself as a deeply committed Christian social activist. He was involved early in the leading institutions of church.