| KENNETH H. KELLER
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Writings
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- Professor
- Executive Committee, Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment
E-mail: khkeller@umn.edu
Areas of expertise: science and technology policy; global technology development; technology in health care; energy policy; the environment
Kenneth H. Keller is a professor of Science, Technology, and Public Policy. He also holds an appointment in the University's Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. His research examines the intersection of science and technology with international politics and economics. His recent writings have dealt with technology and national sovereignty, the environment, the globalization of research and development, and policy issues in high technology medicine.
Keller has spent most of his career at the University of Minnesota, where he joined the faculty in 1964, became vice president for academic affairs in 1980, and University president in 1985. He was senior fellow for science and technology at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1990 to 1996. He has chaired and served on a number of public and private boards and advisory groups and is a member of the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications of the National Research Council, and the boards of RAND's Institute for Education and Training and the Science Museum of Minnesota. He chairs the Medical Technology Leadership Forum and is vice chair of the board of LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas. In February 2002, Keller was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer.
He earned a doctorate and a master's degree in chemical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and was named a distinguished Johns Hopkins alumnus in 1996.
Courses taught for the Humphrey Institute
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Fall 2008
PA 8991-14 - Independent Study
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