Dr. Neal Lane is the Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rice University. He also holds

appointments as Senior Fellow of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, where he is

engaged in matters of science and technology policy, and in the Department of Physics and

Astronomy. Prior to returning to Rice University, Dr. Lane served in the Federal government as

Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of

Science and Technology Policy, from August 1998 to January 2001, and as Director of the

National Science Foundation (NSF) and member (ex officio) of the National Science Board, from

October 1993 to August 1998. Before becoming the NSF Director, Dr. Lane was Provost and

Professor of Physics at Rice University in Houston, Texas, a position he had held since 1986. He

first came to Rice in 1966, when he joined the Department of Physics as an assistant professor.

In 1972, he became Professor of Physics and Space Physics and Astronomy. He left Rice from

mid-1984 to 1986 to serve as Chancellor of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. In

addition, from 1979 to 1980, while on leave from Rice, he worked at the NSF as Director of the

Division of Physics. Dr. Lane received his Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. in physics from the Oklahoma

University.