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Mary
L. Good, Ph.D.
Donaghey University Professor and Dean, University
of Arkansas; former Under Secretary of Technology,
U.S. Department of Commerce |
Mary
L. Good is the managing member of Venture Capital Investors
LLC, an investors’ group in Little Rock, Arkansas,
formed to aid economic growth through the development of
technology-based companies. Her career has spanned academia,
government and industry, and she has worked to build public-private
technology partnerships that work to spur economic growth
and make our nation’s industries more competitive
in the global marketplace.
Good
earned a doctoral degree in inorganic chemistry; taught
for twenty-five years, serving as Boyd Professor of Chemistry
in the division of materials of engineering research; and
then joined Allied Signal, where she became chief executive
officer of this industrial research center.
Good
was appointed to the National Science Board by Presidents
Carter and Reagan and served as that board’s first
female chair. President Bush subsequently appointed her
to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science
and Technology that, in 1993, led to four years as Under
Secretary for Technology in the U.S. Department of Commerce.
In this position, Good fostered public-private partnerships,
particularly through the Advanced Technology Program, which
promotes relationships among universities, industries and
government.
She
serves as president of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and continues to mentor, teach and
lecture across the country about the importance of technology
to our economy.
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