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Name: Dr. Mary L. Good Residence: Little Rock, Arkansas Position: Interim Dean of the College of Information Science and Systems Engineering Donaghey University Professor at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock Degrees: B.S. (1950), Chemistry, University of Central
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| Dr. Mary Good is the interim
dean of the College of Information Science and Systems Engineering, as well as the
Donaghey University Professor at the University of Arkansas- Little Rock. She also serves
as the managing member for Venture Capital Investors, LLC, a group of Arkansas business
leaders who foster economic growth through opportunistic support of technology-based
enterprises. Previously Dr. Good served four years as the under secretary for technology for the Technology Administration in the Department of Commerce, a President-appointed, Senate-con- firmed position. The administration works with industry to eliminate legislative and regulatory barriers to technology commercialization and to encourage adoption of modern technology management practices. Dr. Good was appointed to the National Science Board by President Carter in 1980 and again by President Reagan in 1986. She was chairman of the board from 1988 to 1991, until she received an appointment from President Bush to become a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. In 1990 she was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and in 1997 received the Priestly Medal from the American Chemical Society, the highest award given by the Society. Dr. Good has published more than 100 articles in reference journals and is the author of the book Integrated Laboratory Sequence, published by Barnes and Noble. Presently, Dr. Good serves on the boards of Biogen, a biotech company in Cambridge, Massachusetts; IDEXX Laboratories of Westbrook, Maine; and the Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. |
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