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Prior to his appointment as Executive Vice President for Academic
Affairs at The George
Washington University
(GW) in January 2003, Donald R. Lehman served six and one-half years
as the University’s Vice President for Academic Affairs. In both positions, he has served as the University’s
Chief Academic Officer with administrative oversight of the schools
and other academic divisions. He
is responsible for strategic academic planning and educational policy
in the areas of admissions, curriculum, research, the libraries, academic
computing, distance learning, and faculty personnel administration.
In this role, during academic year 2001-02, he led the University’s
strategic planning effort focused on academic excellence.
Lehman also serves as a member of the Southeastern Universities
Research Association (SURA) Board of Trustees, after having served as
Chair for two years (2003-04), as Chair of the Board of Directors of
the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) (2006-07), and has
served as a member of the See Forever Foundation Board in conjunction
with the Maya Angelou Public Charter School in the District of Columbia
(2004-07).
A noted theoretical nuclear physicist, Lehman chaired the GW
Department of Physics from 1987-1993, and served as the founding director of
the department’s Center for Nuclear Studies from 1990-1993. Prior to his Academic Affairs appointments,
he served for three years as Associate Vice President for Research and
Graduate Studies (1993-1996).
Lehman initially came to GW in 1965 as a graduate student in
Physics, while simultaneously serving in the United States Air Force (USAF) as
a program officer for high-energy particle physics at the Air Force of
Scientific Research (AFOSR). In the
fall of 1968, following his USAF assignment at AFOSR, he returned to civilian
status and became a University Teaching Fellow and in January 1969 became a
member of the GW faculty as an Instructor in Physics. He earned his B.A. in physics (1962) at Rutgers University and M.S. in space physics
(1964) with distinction from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Lehman holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics
(1970) from GW, and conducted postdoctoral research as a National Academy of
Sciences/National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate in the
Radiation Theory Section of the National Bureau of Standards from
1970-1972. In September 1972, Lehman returned
to GW as an Assistant Professor of Physics and became full Professor in
1982. Lehman was elected a fellow of
the American Physical Society in 1988.
He received GW’s Columbian College
Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 1989. In 2002, he was further recognized for his
work in theoretical nuclear physics by being named the George Gamow Professor
of Theoretical Physics. Most recently
(2006), he received The George
Washington University
Award for outstanding contributions to the university.
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