| U of M Board of Regents designates Kenneth H. Keller president emeritus
 The University of Minnesota Board
of Regents announced that Kenneth
H. Keller has been designated president emeritus of the University. Keller
served as the university’s president from 1984 to 1988.
“In his term as university president, Ken Keller recorded many notable
achievements that included a fundraising campaign, which raised more than $300
million to support faculty chairs,” said Board Chair Anthony Baraga. “Since
then, he has continued to serve the University in countless ways and in many
capacities.”
Keller currently is the Charles M. Denny Jr. Professor of Science, Technology
and Public Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and is director
of the Center for Science,
Technology, and Public Policy. He originally joined the university’s
chemical engineering and materials science faculty in 1964. He later was appointed
dean of the Graduate School and as vice president for academic affairs. Keller
also served as a senior fellow for science and technology at the Council on
Foreign Relations in New York from 1990 to 1996.
Throughout his career, Keller has been a member of and chaired numerous government
advisory boards and professional societies. He is a member of the National Research
Council Board on Life Sciences and recently completed terms as chair of the
National Research Council’s Board for the Technical Assessment of the National
Institute of Standards and Technology and of the Medical Technology Leadership
Forum. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
For more than 20 years, Keller’s scientific research focused on fluid
mechanics and mass transfer in biological systems, with particular emphasis
on blood flow phenomena. For this work, Keller received the American Institute
of Chemical Engineers’ Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Division
Award. His current research interests include the impact of science and technology
on international politics and economics, the policy issues raised by high technology
medicine and the role of American institutions of higher education in research
and development. Keller received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Johns Hopkins
University in 1996 and was named Twin Citian of the Year in 1987.
In August, Keller will begin a two-year leave of absence to become director
of The Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies located in northern Italy. The Bologna
Center is a full-time graduate school that offers an interdisciplinary program
of studies, with an emphasis on European studies, international economics, politics,
and history.
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