DIRECTORY OF MEMBERS

For outstanding business leadership over many decades demonstrated by the founding and mentoring and development of a number of successful technology-based businesses.

Brigham Young University -Professor Emeritus

For innovative classification and coding systems used in computer-aided manufacturing and persevering efforts to improve curricula for industrial and manufacturing engineers.

Utah Geologic Survey - Retired Director

For leadership as Director of the Utah Geological Survey, and contributions to the development of geothermal resources in both Utah and the Pacific margin.

University of Utah - Emeritus

For indefatigable efforts to apply Earth sciences via politics, government, and education to provide a safer, richer, and better geologically understood environment for all.

University of Utah

For contributions in defining double-stranded RNA-mediated pathways, including those involving the ADAR RNA editing enzymes, and Dicer, a key enzyme in RNA interference.

Huntsman Cancer Institute

For outstanding work defining the pathways that control how cells sense and respond to external signals, and characterizing communication from the cell surface to the nucleus.

University of Utah

For contributions to microsystem design and for engineering leadership in teaching and research.

Bunnell, Inc. - Retired | University of Utah - Adjunct Assoc. Professor

For innovative technical contributions and leadership developing new therapies for the treatment of respiratory failure in premature infants.

University of Utah

University of Utah

For pioneering work in the development of principals and strategies for safe and permanent sequestration of carbon dioxide.

University of Utah

For his pioneering work on the development of gene targeting in mice.

University of Utah

For development of methods for genome editing.

University of Utah

For contributions using isotopes to develop methods to characterize Earth surface processes and Earth history.

Utah Valley University

For innovation in the architecture and development of student-centered teaching and learning technologies in higher education.

FLSmidth

For transforming mineral processing operations with online measurements, electrochemical sulfide flotation, and hydrometallurgical models. 

David B. George and Associates

For development of a highly energy efficient and environmentally friendly copper smelting technology.

L3Harris 

For innovation and entrepreneurship in civilian and military communication networks, as well as detection, jamming, geolocation and navigation systems.

Enhanced Production, Inc. | University of Utah - Research Professor

For developments in rock mechanics and the commercialization of new technology for deep drilling.

University of Utah

For research and applications in algebraic geometry that have proved many foundational results on the geometry of higher dimensional algebraic varieties, especially complex projective varieties which are geometric objects defined by the solutions of polynomial equations.

L3Harris

For vision and leadership that has shaped the Defense Department and Intelligence Community's Beyond-Line-Of-Sight (BLOS) communications strategy and improved our national security. 

University of Utah

For contributions to hypotheses about the evolution of the postmenopausal longevity, later maturity, earlier weaning, social appetites, and mate guarding habits that distinguish humans from the other great apes.

University of Utah

For leadership in the reduction of theory to practice in mineral processing, particularly in whole processing plants.

Los Alamos National Laboratory - Retired Deputy Director

For pioneering contributions to nuclear safety analysis and outstanding technical leadership.

Brigham Young University

For contributions to antennas and propagation for mobile devices and multi-antenna wireless communications systems as well as for academic leadership and entrepreneurship in engineering.

Kennecott Corporation - Retired President and CEO

For contributions in exploration, project development, and operations management that assisted in restoring the competitiveness of the domestic mining industry.

University of Utah - Distinguished Professor 

For contributions to the molecular basis of synaptic transmission and advances in super-resolution and electron microscopy.

Lockheed Martin Corp. | Emeritus 

For improving rotary wing flight performance and serving as test pilot, engineer, inventor, technologist, and business leader.

University of Utah - Chemical Engineering 

 For major contributions in the field of geomechanics that have advanced critical subsurface energy and minerals recovery as well as major tunneling, dam, and civil engineering constructions.

University of Utah 

For contributions to the fundamental theory and practical technology of flotation, mineral processing, and hydrometallurgy.

University of Utah - Distinguished Professor

For contributions to understanding the behavior and phase transformations of water.  

University of Utah - Emeritus

For contributions to the study of human hunter-gatherer ecology and its implications for understanding pattern and process in human evolution.

Patel Family Investments

For outstanding leadership, mentorship and contributions to new business startups especially in the fields of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.

University of Utah - President Emeritus

For contributions to the control of NOx emissions from fossil fuel combustion and academic leadership of the University. 

Salt Lake Community College

For long-standing direction and encouragement of undergraduate research and scientific education in the state of Utah. 

University of Utah - Emeritus

For contributions to our understanding to the chemistry, biochemistry, and genetics of the isoprenoid biosynthetic pathway, which is responsible for the synthesis of over 85,000 compounds in nature.

University of Utah - Nuclear | Private Consultant

For outstanding contributions to the development of advanced radiation transport computational methods, and their application in areas such as nuclear treaty monitoring, industrial processes and academic research leadership. 

Utah Valley University

For contributions to the innovation, design, development, and education of communications systems theory.

University of Utah

For development and application of nanotechnology and materials science principles, in particular methodologies for the self-assembly of discrete supramolecular species with well-defined shapes and sizes.

University of Utah -Distinguished Professor

For leadership in the development of III/V semiconductor alloys, including the organo-metallic vapor phase epitaxy (OMVPE) growth technique, for modern electronic and photonic devices.

University of Utah - Distinguished Professor

For studies of host-virus interactions, especially for HIV-1, and for using viruses as tools for elucidating new cell biology.

 University of Utah

For contributions to algebraic representation theory.

University of Utah

For contributions to the development of high-temperature ionic and electronic materials for fuel cells and batteries.

Denali Therapeutics

For contributions to drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier enabling new advancements in the treatment of neurological disease. 

University of Utah

For fundamental advances in electrochemical theory, and the development of electroanalytical methods used in analysis of chemical reactions and interfaces at the nanoscale.

Brigham Young University - Emeritus

For contributions to liquefaction hazard assessment, leadership in earthquake engineering, and service to the government and educational communities.

Kennecott - Retired | Consulting Geotechnical Engineer 

For contributions in open pit slope stability monitoring and slope engineering design of open pit mines, waste rock embankments, and tailings dams.