Research System Integrity and Security: Implications for U.S. Innovation Performance
December 02, 2022 • 12:30 PM • Virtual
As U.S. universities continue to internationalize their campuses, they benefit greatly from increased connectivity with their counterpart institutions abroad. Cross border research collaborations have increased as have student and scholar exchanges. At the same time, as American universities become more globally engaged, they have encountered a broad array of new challenges at home stemming from growing national security concerns as well as concerns about protecting the integrity of the U.S. R&D system. Our panelists, Lora Weiss, Penn State Univ., and Kelvin Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma, have found themselves knee-deep in dealing with the various compliance issues and new regulations that have emerged as well as the impact of these issues on the innovation process itself. Our moderator, Denis Simon, the Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law, will guide a discussion regarding how the performance of university research is being affected in both positive and negative ways. Sponsored by the Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law; the Sanford Cyber Policy Program; the Duke Office of Research & Innovation; and, DQ, the Certificate in Digital Intelligence at Duke Science & Society. Registration required: https://bit.ly/3FJLnMI. For more information, please contact Balfour Smith (bsmith@law.duke.edu).
Dr. Kelvin K. Droegemeier is Regents’ Professor of Meteorology, Weathernews Chair Emeritus, and Teigen Presidential Professor at The University of Oklahoma. He also served as the school’s Vice President for Research. Droegemeier earned a B.S. from the University of Oklahoma, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the Oklahoma faculty in 1985; co-founded the NSF Science and Technology Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms in 1989; and, in 2003, co-founded the NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere.
Dr. Droegemeier has served the research and education communities at the national level for more than 35 years. From 2019 to 2021, Dr. Droegemeier served as Director of The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Science Advisor to the President, coordinating planning, prioritization, and policymaking for Federal agencies which conduct or support research and development. He also served as Acting Director of the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Droegemeier served on the National Science Board, the NSF’s governing body, providing science policy guidance to the Congress and the President. He has testified before both the House and Senate on numerous occasions on a wide variety topics. His public service has extended to many other organizations including the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities, the Southeastern Universities Research Association, the Oak Ridge Associated Universities, and the Council on Governmental Relations. Dr. Droegemeier is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Lora G. Weiss, Ph.D., is the senior vice president for research at The Pennsylvania State University. In her role, she oversees the research of twelve academic colleges, seven interdisciplinary research institutes, the Applied Research Lab, which is a university affiliated research center for the Navy, and offices for sponsored programs, research protections, industry partnerships, technology transfer, innovation, economic development, and commercialization. Weiss is also president of the Penn State Research Foundation, which catalyzes the commercial translation of research to application.
Previously, Weiss spent 13 years at Georgia Tech and 16 years at Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory. She has been the author of a continuous stream of highly-regarded journal publications.
She is a member of a variety of organizations including DARPA’s Information Innovation Office, the Senior Research Officers Steering Committee of the Association of American Universities, the Executive Committee of the Association for Public and Land-grant Universities, on the Board of the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority, and the National Academies Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable council.
Weiss received her Ph.D. from Penn State, her master’s from UCLA, and her bachelor’s from Boston University.
Denis Simon serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Innovation Policy at Duke’s Law School. He also is Senior Adviser to the President for China Affairs at Duke University. And, he also holds a faculty appointment in the Fuqua School of Business at Duke. Formerly, from 2015-2020, he served as the Executive Vice Chancellor at Duke Kunshan University—a Sino-US joint venture involving Duke, Wuhan University and the city of Kunshan. He is the 2020 recipient of the Charles Klasek Award, issued by the the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), for his substantial achievements in the field of international education. Prior to joining Duke Kunshan, he held senior administrative appointments at Arizona State University, the University of Oregon, the State Univ of New York, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Outside of academia, he spent 7.5 years in management consulting, serving as General Manager of Andersen Consulting China (now Accenture) in Beijing from 1998–2000 and Director of the China Strategy Group from 1995–2000. He also was the Founding President of Monitor Group China from 2001-2002. Dr. Simon is holder of the Prestigious “China National Friendship Award,” presented by former Premier Wen Jiabao in 2006 in Beijing. He received his PhD and MA from UC Berkeley and his BA from the State University of New York at New Paltz. He speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese. His research is focused on the development of innovation policy and high-end talent in China and East Asia.
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