Board of Directors

A Board of Directors with Mission Relevant Experience and Essential Skills for Governance and Oversight

To carry out Board responsibilities, FRA recruits members from:

• URA's Broad Membership base—90 US universities engaged in guiding the future of FNAL.
• The University of Chicago Representatives—leadership, scientific resources, reachback, and expanded collaborations with ANL.
• Illinois University Representatives—strengthens local and state support, and intellectual reachback through joint appointment.
• Industry—best practices to deliver the most science per dollar
• The National Laboratory Community—benchmarking and collaboration within the National Laboratory System.
• International Representatives—connection for performing research within the new international paradigm for particle physics.

FRA Board Members

• Robert Zimmer, Chair—President, University of Chicago
• Steven Beering, Vice Chair—Executive Chairman, URA Board of Trustees

• Andrew R. Baden—Chair and Professor, University of Maryland
• Francine Berman—Vice President for Research, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• R. Russell Betts—Dean of the College of Science and Letters, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
• Marta Cehelsky—Executive Director, Universities Research Association
• Priscilla Cushman—Professor & Co-spokesman of SuperCDMS, University of Minnesota
• Robert A. Eisenstein—Director, Santa Fe Research Alliance for Science
• S. James Gates, Jr.—John S. Toll Professor of Physics, University of Maryland
• Ian Halliday—Former Chief Executive, UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council; President, European Science Council
• David Hitlin—Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology
• Donald Levy—Vice President for Research and Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago
• Daniel R. Marlow—Professor of Physics, Princeton University
• John G. Peters—President, Northern Illinois University
• David Pethick— President, Energy & Environment Business Unit, URS Corporation
• Jack Ritchie—Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
• Heidi Schellman—Professor of Physics, Northwestern University
• Frank Sciulli—Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
• Lawrence Schook—Interim Vice President for Research, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Michael Turner—Rauner Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
• Joseph T. Walsh, Jr.—Vice President for Research, Northwestern University
• George H. Weyerhaeuser, Jr.—Former Senior VP, Technology, Weyerhaeuser Company
• Sakue Yamada—Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo and KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan)