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National Academy of Science leader to address transportation issues at KU

LAWRENCE — William Colglazier, executive officer of the National Academy of Science and chief operating officer of the National Research Council, will speak at the University of Kansas this week.

Colglazier’s lecture, “Science and Technology in Addressing Critical Issues Facing the Nation,” is free and open to the public. The event begins at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, at Room 2 of Spahr Classroom in Eaton Hall. A reception will follow.

The lecture is part of the KU Transportation Research Institute’s Emerging Challenges in Transportation Lecture Series, which illuminates prevailing transportation research needs for students, faculty and the public. Colglazier will discuss transportation-related problems such as global warming and dependency on foreign oil and what new technologies can be used to help solve these problems.

“The KU Transportation Research Institute has sought out high-level people to scope out the major issues in transportation in order to assure our research faculty are focused on problems that will make a difference,” said Robert Honea, director of the institute.

The National Academy of Science in Washington, D.C., works to further science and technology. The academy receives requests for recommendations and input from Congress and the White House. The National Research Council provides science, technology and health policy under a congressional charter.

Colglazier has worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He received his doctorate in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1971.

The KU Transportation Research Institute works on current and future transportation research, design, evaluation and application opportunities that have a broad societal significance.

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