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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 a member of the Washington Research
Library Consortium (WRLC) Board of Directors, after having served as
Chair for two years (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
Office 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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