Arlene Garrison
Named AAAS Fellow
Arlene Garrison, Tennessee Alpha ’88, vice president for university partnerships at Oak Ridge Associated Universities, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as announced in a news release from ORAU. Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. She serves as a Director for the Great Smoky Mountains Alumni Chapter of Tau Beta Pi.
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In Memoriam: Mary Lowe Good, Eminent Engineer
Mary Lowe Good, South Carolina Gamma ’50, a Heinz Award recipient, renowned chemist, and Dean of the School of Engineering at Louisiana State University, died at her home in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Nov. 20. She was 88. She was initiated in November 1990 as an Eminent Engineer.
Good, who was known for her advocacy of science education and women in science, is a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was the first woman elected to the board of the American Chemical Society and the organization’s second female president.
She was the recipient of numerous awards and accolades over the course of her careers in academia, private industry and the public sector, including earning the National Science Foundation’s highest honor, the Vannevar Bush Award, and the Priestley Medal, the highest honor in American chemistry.
Good received the Heinz award in 1998 for her singular vision in working to build an economy fueled by scientific knowledge and technological know-how. She was a founding faculty member of the University of New Orleans’ Chemistry Department and was the founding dean of the University of Arkansas Donaghey College of Engineering & Information Technology in Little Rock.
She received presidential appointments to serve on national science boards and advisory councils and President Bill Clinton appointed her as undersecretary for technology in the U.S. Commerce Department.
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