Performance Assessment
Advisory Committee for GPRA Performance Assessment Members

*Denotes a new member for June 2008 meeting

David Spencer – Chair (SBIR AC)
Chairman & Chief Technical Officer
wTe Corporation
Bedford, MA

Sharon Dawes* - Vice-Chair (B&O AC)
Senior Fellow, Center for Technology in
Government
University at Albany
State University of New York
Albany, NY

Mary R. Albert *
Research Mechanical Engineer
Terrestrial and Cryospheric Sciences
Branch
Army EDRC Cold Regions Research and
Engineering Lab
Hanover, NH

Diran Apelian *
Howmet Professor of Mechanical
Engineering
and Director, Metal Processing Institute
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA

Elaine L. Craft
Director, SC ATE Center of Excellence
Florence-Darlington Technical College
Florence, SC

Julio C. de Paula (OISE AC)
Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
Lewis & Clark College
Portland, OR

Jorge L. Díaz-Herrera (CISE AC)
Dean, Golisano College of Computing and
Information Sciences
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY

María Alicia López Freeman * (EHR AC)
Executive Director, California Science Project
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Robert Frodeman *
Chair, Department of Philosophy and
Religion Studies
University of North Texas
Denton, TX

Ira Harkavy * (SBE AC)
Associate Vice President and Director
Barbara and Edward Netter Center
for Community Partnerships
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

John K. Haynes (BIO AC)
David Packard Professor and Dean
Division of Science and Mathematics
Morehouse College
Atlanta, GA

George M. Hornberger *
Ernest H. Ern Professor of Environmental
Sciences
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Deanna Paniataaq Kingston* (OPP AC)
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR

Robert L. Lichter (CEOSE)
Principal, Merrimack Consultants, LLC
Great Barrington, MA

Alan Needleman * (ENG AC)
Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of
Engineering
Brown University
Providence, RI

Pamela O'Neil *
Associate Provost
Brown University
Providence, RI

Samuel M. Rankin, III
Associate Executive Director
American Mathematical Society
Washington, DC

Mary Ellen Sheridan * (B&O AC)
Special Assistant to the Vice President
for Research
The University of Chicago
Worthington, OH

Joel E. Tohline* (MPS AC)
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA

Gordon E. Uno
Academic Chair and David Ross Boyd
Professor
Department of Botany and Microbiology
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK