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Cherry A. Murray, Ph.D., distinguished applied physicist and dean of Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, will discuss her career as a research executive, scientist and university leader, during a public lecture Feb. 23 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Cherry A. Murray, Ph.D., distinguished applied physicist and dean of Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, will discuss her career as a research executive, scientist and university leader, during a public lecture Feb. 23 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Murray’s talk, “Life in the Fast Lane,” is at 7 p.m. in Carroll Hall auditorium. Parking is available in commercial lots on Rosemary Street.

Murray will discuss how her interests in art, science and engineering led her from scientific studies of optical materials and soft condensed matter to major leadership positions in science and technology at Bell Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. She also will talk about her appointment as a Harvard dean in 2009, the first woman to lead the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Additionally, on Feb. 24, she will lead a colloquium entitled “Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling.” The discussion, at 4 p.m. in 265 Phillips Hall, is geared towards an academic audience but is open to the public. 

Murray, a member of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, will describe the commission’s charge from President Obama, how it worked, the role science played in the investigation, and the commission’s recently released findings and recommendations.

She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. In 2002, Discover Magazine named her one of the “50 Most Important Women in Science.” 

Her visit to campus is sponsored by UNC’s Working on Women in Science initiative, which fosters the careers of women in the sciences. Co-sponsors are the UNC College of Arts and Sciences and the departments of women’s studies and physics and astronomy.

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College of Arts and Sciences contact: Dee Reid, (919) 843-6339, deereid@unc.edu

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