Gail H. Singh is business operations director of Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), a consortium of 86 doctoral-granting colleges and universities.  From its headquarters in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, ORAU serves to form partnerships that include the government, academia, and the private sector in programs and projects across a full array of key areas of science and technology.  A private, not-for-profit corporation, ORAU also manages and operates the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). 

As a business operations director, Ms. Singh is responsible for the overseeing of six support organizations, overseeing financial reporting to DOE and other federal agencies, serving as chief financial officer for ORAU, improving staff and support operations, and assuring compliance by developing self-assessment practices.

 Prior to joining ORAU in 1993, Ms. Singh spent over 20 years with the Tennessee Valley Authority.  As budget chief, she was responsible for all congressional interactions with TVA’s budget and advised the general manager on budget policies.  As land and economics director, she assisted in the planning of the organization and managed TVA lands, equipment, and structures.  As business operations manager, she planned, organized, and staffed a new business services and implemented a successful organizational structure that resulted in a 30 percent reduction in administrative costs.  As resource group division director and quality officer, she was involved in developing improvement plans and led training efforts.

Ms. Singh received her bachelor’s degree in accounting at the University of Tennessee.  She is a member of the National Management Association and the Executive Women’s Association.

Margaret Morrow is presently the Deputy for Operations for the Department of Energy Oak Ridge Operations.  In this capacity she is responsible for the Offices of Science, Environmental Management and Nuclear Energy programs, the Environment, Safety, Health and Emergency Management programs and the Safeguards and Security functions of Oak Ridge Operations.  

Ms. Morrow retired as Vice President for Weapons Programs from Lockheed Martin Energy Systems after 33 years of service.  During those years, she had experience in basic research, program management, line operations, and overall manufacturing management for the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant. 

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Newberry College, Newberry, S.C.; a Masters of Science in Chemistry from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; and an honorary Doctor of Science from Newberry College.  Margaret holds four technical patents and is the recipient of several Awards of Excellence from the Department of Energy and Lockheed Martin Corporation. 

Dr. Lee Magid received her PhD degree in chemistry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1973, and joined the faculty that same year.  She is currently Professor of Chemistry and UT’s liaison for Science & Technology to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Spallation Neutron Source.  In her research she studies the structure and dynamics of organized assemblies such as micelles and polyelectrolytes via (among other techniques) small-angle neutron scattering, neutron spin-echo spectroscopy and neutron reflectivity.  She served as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Arts and Sciences from 1987 to 1990, and as Executive Assistant to the Chancellor, 1990-91; she was Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies at the University of Kentucky from 1991 to 1994.  Dr. Magid has held several short-term research appointments at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zuerich, and the Max Planck Institute in Goettingen, Germany.  She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has served on several committees of the National Academy/National Research Council, including the Solid State Sciences Committee.

 Dr. Magid will discuss the use of neutron scattering to study both structure - atomic as well as magnetic - and dynamics in a wide variety of materials, both hard and soft.  Physicists, chemists, biologists, earth scientists and engineers are all users of neutron beams.  She will describe the major new neutron facilities that will make Oak Ridge National Laboratory the world’s foremost center for neutron sciences.  The Spallation Neutron Source, a pulsed neutron source whose $1.41B construction project is being funded by the Department of Energy, is scheduled for completion in 2005.  The High-Flux Isotope Reactor, a continuous source, is currently undergoing an upgrade that includes installation of a cold source to produce intense beams of long-wavelength neutrons for studying large-scale structural features in materials.  Her talk is entitled ‘Neutron Scattering as a Probe of Materials:  Bright Future, Distinguished Past’.

Cathy Hickey, Director of Infrastructure Reduction, is responsible for infrastructure reduction/consolidation at the Y-12 National Security Complex.  She has more than 18 years experience with Bechtel, including project management on the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) where she managed characterization and remediation activities on multiple active and inactive sites.

 Immediately prior to her employment with BWXT Y-12, she worked for Bechtel Jacobs Company L.L.C. as Economic Development Manager for Bechtel Jacobs Development Company (BJDC).  In this capacity, she worked directly with numerous local companies developing incentive plans to aid in their growth and further increase the non-DOE payroll in Anderson, Blount, Loudon, Knox, and Roane counties.  Several of the companies that benefited from BJDC incentives are now occupants of the East Tennessee Technology Park.

Ms. Hickey has more than 22 years of experience working as a contractor to the Department of Energy.  Her responsibilities have ranged from Project Management to Marketing to Business Development.  Her technical background is in Environment, Health, and Safety.  She graduated from East Tennessee State University with a BS in Environmental Health in 1978.

Ms. Hickey is a long time resident of East Tennessee.  She and her husband, Jerry, have two teenage daughters and live on a small horse farm in the Hardin Valley area.  She is involved in the local community as aboard member of the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee and as a member of the Anderson County chapter of the American Cancer Society.

Beth Jinkerson has worked with Oak Ridge Associated Universities for 20 years.  She has an AA degree in Modern Foreign Languages and a BS degree in Business Management/Information Systems Emphasis.  Ms. Jinkerson has managed information programs for 11 years, and has served on advisory boards for Pellissippi State Community College, Knoxville College, and the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce.  She is a member of the Oracle showcase program and a panelist for Microsoft Corporation.  Today, she manages all information resources for ORAU, including Wide and Local Area Networks, computer security program, custom application development, and ERP implementation and management.  As ISD Director, Ms. Jinkerson manages 36 employees and a combined budget of about $3M annually.

Dr. Ila A. Davis has served as the Director of Veterinary Services for the Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley since 1999.  Her responsibilities include development and maintenance of wellness and preventative medicine programs, surgery staffing, spay/neuter (sometimes 25-30 surgeries/day!), communication with adoptors and private practitioners, and treatment of in-house sick animals.

Dr. Davis spent her teenage years in Fallon, Nevada.  She received a Bachelors of Science degree in Molecular Biology from San Jose State University, San Jose, California, in 1985, graduating with honors.  After graduation from veterinary school at the University of California, Davis with honors in 1989, she returned to Nevada and joined a three-person Veterinary Clinic, treating everything from desert tortoises to camels and all critters in between.  During an internship in Large Animal Medicine and Surgery at Iowa State University from 1990-1991, she began treating llamas almost exclusively.  While at Iowa State, she held a residency in Food and Farm Animal Internal Medicine from 1991-1993 and was a clinical instructor in Large Animal Medicine and Surgery from 1994-1995.

Dr. Donna Cragle has been involved with research of occupational hazards in Department of Energy (DOE) facilities for 19 years.  The primary focus of her research has been in the area of occupational epidemiology with particular interest in radiation and beryllium exposures.  She has worked on a number of international projects including an international committee to assess the body of data related to human health effects from exposure to nickel.  She also worked on a data preservation effort for an international radiation epidemiology project involving health effects of radiation exposure.   Dr. Cragle has been involved in decision making related to maintenance of the large worker databases for 18 years.   She has extensive experience with large-scale studies involving data from multiple worker populations.  She has assisted outside researchers in their access to worker data and worked collaboratively with these researchers to facilitate their understanding of the data.  Her knowledge of occupational epidemiology has resulted in teaching opportunities both nationally and internationally.  Her 30 publications have provided a significant contribution to the occupational epidemiology literature.

Her formal education includes an undergraduate degree in biology from Indiana University, a master’s degree in human genetics from the Medical College of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina.

Dr. Jane Y. Howe is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Carbon and Insulation Materials Technology group in the Metals and Ceramics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  Her research project is the characterization and modelling of carbon monoliths used as natural gas adsorbent material.  From 1995-2000, Dr. Howe was a research and teaching assistant at Alfred University in Alfred, New York where in she received her Ph.D. in Ceramics.  Her dissertation was titled ‘The Oxidation of Diamond’.  In 1997 she received her Masters degree in Ceramic Engineering from Alfred, following her Bachelors of Science degree in Materials Science from Changsha Institute of Technology in China.

 After-work activities for Dr. Howe include gourmet cooking of healthy and happy food, a cuisine she developed.  She also enjoys mountain biking, hiking and cross-country skiing, Karate and Tai-Chi.  Jane is a volunteer at the Oak Ridge Public Library.  In Alfred, New York, Dr. Howe provides the Alfred Cub Scouts and Brownies Microscopy Lab demonstrations.  She does book reading for the kindergarten children at a local school.  She serves as a Chinese-English translator for the Town of Alfred Court and is the spokesperson for the Chinese students at Alfred University.

Janet Cushman leads the U.S. Department of Energy’s Biofuels Feedstock Development Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  She has been associated with biomass energy research since 1980.  She developed and served as the first field manager for the Herbaceous Energy Crops Program from 1984-1990, and has been field manager for the Biofuels Feedstock Development Program since 1990.  Ms. Cushman holds a B.A. in biology from Hiram College and an M.S. in ecology and evolution from Yale University.  Before joining the bioenergy programs, she was a research associate in regional resource assessment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a botanist/ecologist for the State of Connecticut.

Lynn Kszos came to Oak Ridge National Laboratory from western New York in 1986 and has been a Research Associate with the Environmental Sciences Division since 1988.  She earned her B.S. in biology from the University of Delaware and M.S. in biology from the State University of New York at Fredonia.  From 1986-1988, Ms. Kszos was a Research Assistant with the University of Tennessee working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  She joined the Environmental Sciences Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1988 and is currently a research associate with the Bioenergy Feedstock Development Program (BFDP) where she is responsible for project management support of woody and herbaceous crop research.  In addition, she provides technical information to sponsors and the public on many aspects of crop research.  Prior to joining BFDP, Ms. Kszos was the manager of the Toxicology Laboratory.  Ms. Kszos has extensive experience conducting aquatic toxicity tests with ambient and effluent water, and biomonitoring tests for NPDES permit compliance.  She was the principal investigator for toxicity identification studies, sediment toxicity evaluations, and site-specific metal criteria development.  Ms. Kszos was also project manager for the Biological Monitoring Programs conducted at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.  She is active in professional societies and serves as chair of the Ecology Committee for the Water Environment Federation, and secretary for the Oak Ridge chapter of Sigma Xi.  She is on the editorial board of the journal, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and has authored or coauthored more that 25 publications or technical reports.

Lynn lives in west Knoxville and has two children, Jessica (10) and Chris (7).  Her husband, Joe, is a Parole Officer with the Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole.  In her free time, Lynn enjoys coaching her children’s soccer teams, playing soccer herself, spending time with her husband Joe, and playing the flute at her church.

Dr. Marie Walsh holds a B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from Illinois College, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota.  Dr. Walsh has taught biology and physics in the Peace Corps in Berekum, Ghana, Africa.  She has also worked as a research assistant conducting biotechnology research at Washington University Medical School.  Dr. Walsh was an American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Science Fellow, and worked at the U.S. Congress--Office of Technology Assessment where she conducted analysis of policy issues related to agricultural biotechnology.  Currently, she is a Research Staff Economist in the Energy Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Leader of the Integrated Systems Analysis Economics Task of the Biomass Feedstock Development Program at ORNL.  She has previously served as the U.S. Representative to the Integrated Bioenergy Systems Activity of the International Energy Agency’s Biomass Utilization Task.  Her research focuses on economic issues related to biomass energy systems with emphasis on feedstock supply and biomass resource assessment issues.

Dr. Charmaine Foltz graduated from Colorado State College of Veterinary Medicine in 1986.  Dr. Foltz was a post-doctoral fellow in laboratory animal medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from 1988-1991 and was boarded in laboratory animal medicine in 1993.  She has worked as a clinical laboratory animal veterinarian at both Louisiana State University Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Dr. Foltz is the Laboratory Animal Resources Section Head in the Division of Life Sciences where she oversees the care and health of the large mouse colony used in genetics research within the Life Sciences Division.  Dr. Foltz also serves as the ORNL Institutional Veterinarian and is responsible for ensuring that the ORNL animal care program maintains accreditation as recognized by the Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care.  She is a Diplomat of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine.

Marissa Mills is a Webmaster and Marketing and Communications Specialist for ORNL's Human Genome Management Information System (HGMIS).  She works with a team of six people (many part-time) whose are responsible for communicating genome project science and social implications accessible to a diverse audience, including scientists who use genome data and tools to gain greater understanding of biological systems; government policy makers; print and broadcast journalists; educators and students; physicians, nurses, counselors, and other medical professionals; judges and lawyers; and the lay public.

HGMIS publishes the newsletter Human Genome News, numerous publications and genome program reports, and a suite of websites pertaining to genetics and the Human Genome Project.  HGMIS also travels to numerous meetings giving lectures and exhibiting on behalf of the Human Genome Project and the Department of Energy's Biological and Environmental Research Program.  Other members of the HGMIS team include science writers and editors, HTML and database specialists, and a graphics designer.

Ms. Mills has an M.S. in nutrition from the University of Tennessee and a B.A. in journalism and mass communication with an emphasis in public relations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Dr. Sharon Robinson has twenty-one years experience working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).  She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University in 1980.  She obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering at the University of Tennessee in 1985 and 1992, respectively.  She was a cooperative education student in the Chemical Technology Division at ORNL, and has held a number of positions in the Chemical Technology Division since joining ORNL in 1980, spanning from research to program planning to management.  She began her career in applied research in nuclear processing and reprocessing and environmental technologies.  For six years, she headed the Engineering Development Section of the Chemical Technology Division, an applied development group focused on innovative separation processes for mitigation of environmental problems.  This culminated in the deployment of new technologies for consolidation and treatment of the high-activity tank waste at ORNL.  In 2000 she became the Separations Science and Technology Program Manager and co-director of the Center for Separations and Chemical Processing at ORNL.  In this role, she has coordinated a series of national workshops where technical experts from industry, academia, and government identify future research needed to address problems in the chemical and related industries.  The workshop results are used to direct research and development for the DOE Office of Industrial Technologies. For the last year, she has worked part time in Washington, DC for the Chemical Industries of the Future program in the Office of Industrial Technology.  She coordinates the ORNL Fossil Energy Oil and Natural Gas Environmental program, and is the ORNL representative for the Petroleum Environmental Research Forum.  She is active in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers: is a director for the Separations Division, has been a director for the Nuclear Division, is on the steering committee for the Center for Waste Reduction Technologies, and is on the National Research and New Technologies Committee.

Dr. Claudia Rawn is a Research Staff Member in the Diffraction and Thermophysical Properties Group in the Metals and Ceramics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where she studies the crystal structure, phase transitions, and thermophysical properties of materials using in-situ x-ray and neutron diffraction.   She received her B.Sc. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Materials Engineering in 1986, her M.Sc. from George Mason University in Chemistry in 1991, and her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Materials Science and Engineering in 1995.  Between 1987 and 1992, Claudia worked in the Ceramics Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a Materials Research Engineer obtaining data used in the creation of phase diagrams for high T_c superconductor systems.  After completing her Ph.D. she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Ceramics Department of the "Jozef Stefan" Institute, in Ljubljana, Slovenia where her research responsibilities included single crystal growth and solid state synthesis of powder solid solution samples with controlled composition for single crystal x-ray diffraction and x-ray and neutron powder (Rietveld) structural refinements, respectively. 

Barbara Beatty obtained a Bachelors of Science degree in Biology from Florida Southern College.  Her scientific career began in 1963 as a Research Technician in Immunology at Oak Ridge Associated Universities.  In 1966 she moved to the Biology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where she served as a Research Assistant in Cell Biology.  Following a 19-year hiatus from science to be a full-time mother, she returned to the Biology Division at ORNL serving as a Research Associate in Molecular Biology, and then in 1993 as a Research Associate in Cryopreservation.  Her current position, which she has held since 1997, is as a Research Associate in Quality Assurance and as the ORNL Animal Care and Use Committee Chair within the Life Sciences Division.  She is a member of the National Management Association, the Association for Women in Science, the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, and the Society for Quality Assurance.

Ms. Beatty will be discussing a number of continuing exciting opportunities in biological research and science administration at the B. S. level, including her early research career experiences in cell biology and electron microscopy, as well as, those following her 19-year hiatus from science.  Those experiences upon returning to the biological arena included participation in research in molecular biology, mouse transgenics, and cryopreservation.  Her involvement in animal-based research led to her present administrative roles in quality assurance for the large life sciences research division and as chairperson of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Animal Care and Use Committee. For the past year she has been working part-time in these two roles.  She will highlight her personal experiences combining motherhood, and more recently grandmotherhood, with an exciting, interesting, and rewarding career in science research and administration.

Dr. Flanagan will discuss the variety of activities involved in a research career--you don't just sit in your office and code!  She will cover mentoring, proposal writing and other skills and activities that are vital to a robust research career, using examples from her own research.  Debra's research includes statistical analysis and risk assessment in physical sciences and her clients include the FBI.

Betsy Riley, Technical Assistant to the Division Director of Computer Science and Mathematics Division has held a variety of positions at ORNL since joining the staff in 1974. Her current position (begun October 1, 1998) includes a variety of operational duties, stewardship of the CSM website, and management of User and Application Services for ORNL supercomputers.

Her previous position, begun in 1993 as Manager of User Services for the Center for Computational Science (CCS), involved managing the CCS user services staff, a group of computational researchers with PhD's in a variety of scientific disciplines. The CCS was one of two high performance computing research centers established by the Department of Energy (DOE) in 1993. CCS users included researchers working on Grand Challenge projects and industrial projects of comparable scope in a parallel supercomputing facility employing new and state-of-the-art (often beta) hardware and software. In this position Ms. Riley was also responsible for providing information communication between the CCS, users, and the DOE; this includes oversight of all aspects of CCS computer usage.

While with the CCS (a new division of ORNL), Ms. Riley helped to define the nature and character of CCS, developing user policies and operating procedures and producing the first printed annual report for the division. She was also responsible for establishing and maintaining the CCS web site, the first web site within the ORNL firewall to be approved for external access.

Prior to joining CCS, Ms. Riley was a section head in the Computing and Telecommunications Division where she led computer graphics development and support efforts, setting corporate directions in computer graphics. She was responsible for introducing computer graphics tools to graphic artists, and for bringing color film production and computer animation capabilities to the corporation. She was also instrumental in providing scientific visualization functions by establishing the VizLab. She represented ORNL and Y12 at the DOE Computer Graphics Forum, served as elected industry representative on the National Computer Graphics Association board of directors, and served as president of the ISSCO Users Group (ISSCO was a computer graphics software vendor). Earlier, as a computing staff member, she provided programming and graphics support, primarily to engineers and researchers involved in designing advanced superconducting magnets for the fusion projects. She is a computer scientist (BA, magna cum laude, Mathematics and Computer Science, Murray State University).

Ms. Riley will discuss other career options in the research environment, using examples from her work including business applications, systems support and research support.  Examples include: calculating magnetic field lines for tokamak magnets, a procurement tracking database, command-based graphics software for artists, an animation toolkit, systems routing and peripheral interfaces for image files, design and implementation of ORNL's first "approved for public viewing" website, setting up a consulting/support system for supercomputer users.  Supercomputing applications and visualization (and virtual reality) will be covered as a group--including supernovae explosions, global warming, automotive crashworthiness, and quantum teleportation.