On the Move, June 2010

The Portland Tribune reported that Dr. Earl F. Weener, MI G ’71, has been unanimously confirmed as the newest member of the National Transportation Safety Board.

The five-member board “is responsible for making safety recommendations aimed at preventing transportation accidents and investigating civil aviation, railroad, highway, marine, and pipeline mishaps.”

Dr. Weener spent 24 years working for The Boeing Company and is a Foundation Fellow of the Flight Safety Foundation. Click here for more about his appointment and the NTSB.

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Garret Harms, NY G 2011, has been named to the 2010 ESPN The Magazine National Academic All-America College Division Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country Teams.

Harms, a junior dual major in nuclear and mechanical engineering, has been named to the Second Team. Read the press release from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for more

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This week Congress appointed Charles O. Holliday Jr., former chief executive of DuPont, to head a review “of what the federal government can do to help ensure the long-term health of the nation’s research universities.”

The article by The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Congress had been pressed by several academic groups to conduct such a study.

The report should be issues within the next 12 months.

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