Lee Riedinger became the Deputy Director for Science and Technology at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory on April 1, 2000.  Before joining ORNL as part of the UT-Battelle team, he was head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Tennessee, and had been on the faculty since 1971, a full professor since 1978.  He worked also as a part-time member of the ORNL Physics Division for 15 years until 1993.  He served from 1988 to 1991 as the director of the Science Alliance Center of Excellence, a program devoted to building joint research between UT and ORNL.  He worked from 1991 to 1995 as the UT Associate Vice Chancellor for Research.  From 1993 to 1996, he was the first chair of the Tennessee Science and Technology Advisory Council, which advises the Governor and the Legislature on technical priorities for the state.

His field is experimental nuclear physics, emphasizing properties of high-spin states in deformed nuclei.  He has been an author of 180 refereed publications, given 55 invited talks at conferences and workshops, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).  Various sabbatical leaves have been spent at the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark.  He served as the elected chair of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the APS in 1996.  In 1983-84, he was the science advisor to Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, then the majority leader of the U.S. Senate.

Dr. Riedinger received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Thomas More College in Kentucky in 1964 and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1968.  His doctoral research was performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Gail 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.

Margaret Morrow is 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, Asset Utilization, and Nuclear Energy programs in Oak Ridge.  Additionally, she manages the  Environmental, Safety and Emergency Management programs and the Safeguards and Security functions for Oak Ridge Operations. 

Margaret retired as Deputy 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 in South Carolina; a Masters of Science from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; and an honorary Doctor of Science from Newberry College.  Margaret holds four technical patents. 

Dabney Johnson is a senior staff scientist and section head in Mammalian Genetics and Development in the Life Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Johnson's laboratory analyzes the molecular and functional consequences of induced germ-line mutations on obvious and subtle whole-organism phenotypes in the mouse.

The primary focus for the laboratory is on the molecular and functional analysis of germ-line mutations and complex phenotypes generated by our phenotype-based mouse mutagenesis core program. Studies are designed to pair specific genes with mutant phenotypes. Screening assays are developed and employed to detect behavioral, biochemical, and morphological mutations in mice, and then clone, characterize, and manipulate genes associated with mutant phenotypes that alter function at the organismal level. Students and other investigators perform detailed analysis of the functional consequences of DNA alterations in individual gene sequences, and on how those mutations impact entire biological pathways over the lifespan of the animal.

Dr. Johnson received her Ph.D. in molecular genetics in the Mammalian Genetics program at ORNL from the University of Tennessee Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences in May of 1990. After graduating in 1967 with a B.S. in biology from Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC, and an M.S. in biology in 1968 from Emory University in Atlanta, she raised a family while working in quality control/microbiology for a pharmaceutical company and then as a cytogeneticist and laboratory supervisor at the University of Tennessee Birth Defects Center.

Vivian Baylor has spent more than 20 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory serving the organization in many capacities.  She has extensive experience in program development and management and a broad understanding of national security issues.  She currently serves a Manager of Nonproliferation R&D in the National Security Directorate.  In this role she is responsible for the development and management of hardware and systems development projects to support the needs of military and civilian agencies whose mandate is to stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.  Previously, as acting manager of the Special Projects Office within the National Security Program Office, she was involved in the development and management of technology development projects for the Department of Energy, law enforcement, military special operations and the intelligence community to support requirements in security, intelligence, counterproliferation, law enforcement, counternarcotics, counterterrorism and other national security missions.  While in this office she built the overall program from $1M to $12M over 5 years and built the research program from $3M to $7M in four years.  As assistant to the Associate Director for Engineering and Nuclear Technologies, she managed the institutional planning and budget process for the directorate, covering eight major programs and divisions and $100M in funding.  As University Relations Program Manager, she developed and managed programs to link students, teachers, and faculty nationwide to ORNL resources and personnel, implemented innovative programs for pre-college students, and initiated an intralaboratory cooperative program in pre-college education, building the program from $0.5M to $1.5M in 3 years.  She has authored or co-authored on over 30 technical publications and articles.

She received her B.S. degree with High Honors and did coursework for her M.S. degree in Metallurical Engineering while at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  This followed B.A. degrees in English and Political Science from Virginia Tech University.

Jane Howe is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Carbon Materials Technology group in the Metals and Ceramics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  Her research project is the characterization and modelling of carbon materials, mainly for gas storage applications.  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 reading (her current favorite topic is history) mountain biking, hiking and cross-country skiing.  Jane is a volunteer at the Oak Ridge Public Library.

Barbara Vogt Sorensen is on the Research Staff of the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She has a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Hawaii (1981) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Tennessee (1988). Her research interests have focused on emergency preparedness and disaster mitigation for chemical and biological warfare agents and for natural and technological hazards, risk assessment, and environmental justice issues. Barbara is president-elect for the East Tennessee Society for Risk Analysis and serves as an Associate Editor for the interdisciplinary Journal of Natural Hazards. Six years ago Barbara organized the Gender and Disaster Caucus held annually at the Natural Hazards Workshop at the University of Colorado. Barbara also volunteers time as a Master Gardener for the University of Tennessee and the Knox County Extension Office when she is not working on cultivating heritage irises on her farm in Greenback, TN.

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.  Assigned to the Environmental Sciences Division at ORNL, she is a Research Staff Economist and the Leader of the Integrated Systems Analysis Task of the U.S. Department of Energy Biomass Feedstock Development Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  She has previously served as the U.S. Representative to the Integrated Bioenergy Systems Activity of the International Energy Agency’s Biomass Utilization Task.  Dr. Walsh received the 2001 Knoxville YWCA Tribute to Women Award for Science and Technology. Her research focuses on economic and policy issues related to biomass energy systems with emphasis on feedstock supply and biomass resource assessment.  Dr. Walsh has published several articles and given numerous presentations on the economics of biomass resources.

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.

Carol Forsyth has been a member of the Life Sciences Division since coming to the Laboratory in 1994.  She received a B.S. in biochemistry in 1984 and a M.S. in biology in 1987 both at Mississippi State University. These were followed by a move to the west coast where she received a Ph.D. in toxicology at Oregon State University in 1993. In 1997, she was certified by the American Board of Toxicology. Carol now focuses on the areas of developmental and reproductive toxicology as well as general human health risk assessment. When not being a toxicologist, Carol raises sheep and spins their wool into yarn.

With a B.A. in Business, a M.S. degree in Statistics, 20 years of computer programming experience, and a daily indoctrination into the complexities of biology, Ms. Land has experience in the career shifts that take place when faced with changing technology and new opportunities. Ms. Land's past projects include 9 years working on projects for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with their Hazardous Waste Programs and 7 years working on Environmental Restoration Projects at Oak Ridge.

Vicky White holds a B.S. in computer science from Tennessee Technological University (1984).  She supported Unix systems for four years at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia before coming to ORNL in 1988.  In Oak Ridge she helped manage the Cray supercomputer at K25, including its conversion from CTSS to Unicos.  She was later a member of the Open Systems Implementation and Migration team which installed the first Unix-based business systems at ORNL.