2012 Board of Directors

Honorary Chairman

The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison
United States Senator

Founding Co-Chairmen

Dr. Michael S. Brown
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Nobel Laureate (1985), IOM, NAS Member

IN MEMORIAM
Dr. Richard E. Smalley
Rice University
Nobel Laureate, 1996

Board Members

Dr. William R. Brinkley, President
Emeritus Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
IOM Member

Dr. Stephen A. Holditch, Past President
Director, Texas A&M Energy Institute
Texas A&M University
NAE Member

Dr. E. Linn Draper, Jr., Vice President

Chairman, President and CEO Emeritus

American Electric Power Company
NAE Member

Dr. Thomas J.R. Hughes, Secretary

Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Computational & Applied Mathematics Chair III

The University of Texas at Austin
NAE, NAS Member

Dr. Christine A. Ehlig-Economides, Treasurer

Professor, Petroleum Engineering

Texas A&M University
NAE Member

Kenneth E. Arnold, Treasurer-elect
Senior Technical Advisor
WorleyParsons
NAE Member

Dr. Brian J.L. Berry
Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor
School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences
The University of Texas at Dallas
NAS Member

Dr. Baruch A. Brody
Andrew Mellow Professor in Humanities
Department of Philosophy
Rice University
IOM Member

Dr. Johann Deisenhofer

Regental Professor

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Nobel Laureate (1988), NAS Member

Dr. Delores M. Etter

Texas Instruments Distinguished Chair in Engineering Education

Southern Methodist University
NAE Member

Dr. Ellen R. Gritz

Professor and Chair

Department of Behavioral Science

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
IOM Member

Dr. Jan-Åke Gustafsson
Robert A. Welch Professor, Department of Biology and Biochemistry
Director, Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling
University of Houston
NAS Member

Dr. Alan M. Lambowitz

Professor and Director, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology

The University of Texas at Austin
NAS Member

Dr. James R. Lupski

Cullen Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics

Professor of Pediatrics

Baylor College of Medicine
IOM Member

Dr. Kishor C. Mehta

P.W. Horn Professor of Civil Engineering

Texas Tech University
NAE Member

Dr. Frederick A. Murphy
James W. McLaughlin Professor
Department of Pathology
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
IOM Member

Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez
Director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research
Dielmann Chair, Health Disparities and Community Outreach
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
IOM Member

Dr. George L. Stegemeier

President

GLS Engineering
NAE Member

Dr. Ben G. Streetman
Dula D. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering
College of Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
NAE Member