UC DAVIS PROF. NAMED TO LANS, LLNS BOARDS OF GOVERNORS

Robert Powell, a UC Davis chemical engineering and materials science professor, has been appointed to the Boards of Governors for Los Alamos National Security and Lawrence Livermore National Security as an executive committee governor, according to Norman Pattiz, the chairman of both boards. Powell replaces William Frazer, who had served on the boards for the last seven years. Powell has served as the chair of UC Davis’s Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department since 2011, was appointed by California Gov. Jerry Brown as science advisor to the Secretary of the California National Resources Agency. “Bob is highly respected by the UC regents and President Janet Napolitano as a senior academic leader and faculty representative within the University of California,” Pattiz said in a statement. “As former chair of the UC Academic Council Special Committee on Laboratory Issues, he has substantial experience with the UC-affiliated national laboratories. Bob’s knowledge of the university and the R&D capabilities of Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos supports the university’s key role of assuring the labs’ science and technology excellence.”