LASPAU is pleased to welcome three new members of the Board of Trustees: Eduardo Macagno, Thomas E. McNamara, and Claudio Teitelboim.
Eduardo Macagno is the founding dean of the Division of Biology at the University of California, San Diego, where he is also the Richard C. Atkinson Professor of Biology. His current research deals with identified neurons in the medicinal leech. From 1973 to 2000, he sat on the faculty of Columbia University, where he served as professor of biological sciences, associate vice president for research and graduate education, and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has published papers in many scholarly scientific journals, including the Journal of Neuroscience and the Journal of Neurobiology, of which he is currently the coeditor. He also serves on review panels for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Research Council and has received a NIH Javits Investigator award. He received a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University and a B.A. in physics from the University of Iowa.
Thomas E. McNamara was elected president and CEO of the Americas Society and president of the Council of the Americas in December of 1998. The Americas Society is a nonprofit education organization whose mission is to inform the American public about the politics, economies, and cultures of the Western Hemisphere. The Council of the Americas, also nonprofit, is a U.S. business organization devoted to the promotion of economic integration, free trade, private investment, and the rule of law in the Western Hemisphere. McNamara came to the Society and the Council after a career in government that included service as ambassador to Colombia (1988–91), special assistant to the president for national security affairs (1991–93), ambassador for counterterrorism (1993–94), and assistant secretary of state (1994–98). While assistant secretary of state for political military affairs (1994), he was also the special negotiator for Panama, attempting to establish a Multinational Counternarcotics Center there. In 1993–94, he led a task force on Latin American participation in peacekeeping in Haiti, and, over a fifteen-year period, he headed special delegations to Argentina, Ecuador, Canada, and Honduras as well. His overseas postings, besides Bogota, included Paris, Moscow, Lubumbashi, Bukavu, and Kinshasa. McNamara holds a B.A. and M.A in history and political science.
Claudio Teitelboim studied science with a specialization in physics at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago and received his Ph.D in physics from Princeton University in 1973. He remained at Princeton as a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) and also served as a professor of physics both at Princeton and at the University of Texas. In 1984, he cofounded and was named director of the Centro de Estudios Científicos (CECS) in Santiago, Chile, an independent and autonomous body whose central aim is to perform, promote, and diffuse top-quality scientific research both within the scientific community and to the general public. He was also president of the Chilean Presidential Advisory Committee for Scientific Matters from 1995 to 2000. He is currently director of CECS in Valdivia, a full-fledged Millennium Science Institute since 2000, and he continues to be a long-term member of the IAS.
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