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In her recent appointment to a national commission on the BP oil spill, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Cherry A. Murray will draw upon decades of experience in managing engineers and scientists—an asset that colleagues say will prove fundamental to her government charge.
The creation of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling came on the heels of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico—considered the largest offshore spill in U.S. history—that resulted from a drilling rig explosion in...
Murray joins the commission after spending her first year at the helm of SEAS, where she launched broad efforts to expand the school's footprint within Harvard, initiated a multi-year program to convert individual tracks in Engineering Science into discrete concentrations, and increased national awareness of developments within SEAS...
Murray has an extensive history in managing scientists and engineers in their research at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she led 3,500 employees as the lab's principal associate director.
“I think that Dean Murray—especially after the Livermore Labs—has broad management skills in science and technology that will be necessary for her work on the commission,” said Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, former dean of...