In 1964, Brooks founded the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chaired it for 20 years.

Following the introduction of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 and its extensive and complex rewriting of the Firearms Act, the Minister for Justice at the time ( Micheal McDowell ) instituted the Firearms Consultation Panel, a panel chaired by the Minster through the Principal Officer of the Department of Justice's Firearms Section, which comprised representatives from the Gardai, Department of Sport, firearms dealers, all the national governing bodies of the shooting sports, and other stakeholders in the Firearms Act ( such as insurance providers ).

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

In this capacity, Mr. Chester coordinated the development of the Network of the Americas ( La Cadena de las Americas ) with the Department of State, the Office for Inter-American Affairs ( as chaired by Nelson Rockefeller ) and Voice of America.

Nixon insisted on the abolition of the SIG chaired by the Department of State.

From 1956 through 1963, Zinn chaired the Department of History and social sciences at Spelman College.

In 1971 Evans began teaching at Trenton State College ( now The College of New Jersey ), where he chaired the Afro-American Studies Department from 1971 to 1983.

Paige has served on review committees of the Texas Education Agency and the State Board of Education's Task Force on High School Education, and he has chaired the Youth Employment Issues Subcommittee of the National Commission for Employment Policy of the U. S. Department of Labor.

On 21 December 1990, the post-socialist government of Croatia, passed a law prescribing the design created by the graphic designer Miroslav Šutej, under the aegis of a commission chaired by Nikša Stančić, then head of the Department of Croatian History at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.

Bunche chaired the Department of Political Science at Howard University from 1928 until 1950, where he taught generations of students.

She served as a Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and chaired the Visiting Committee of the Metropolitan's Department of Far Eastern Art ; she is credited with the idea for a Chinese garden courtyard, the Astor Court, in the Metropolitan.

He was made professor of Far Eastern Linguistics in 1962, and chaired both the Department of East and South Asian Languages and the Department of Linguistics.

He also founded Harvard's Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology, and chaired the college's Department of Folklore and Mythology until his retirement in 1983.

He chaired the Department at UC Berkeley, 1998-2002.

Since leaving the front bench he has chaired the Lord Chancellor's Department, Constitutional Affairs, and Justice Committees.

It demanded an end to racism, creation of an Ethnic Studies Department, to be chaired by sociologist Nathan Hare, an end to the War in Vietnam and the university's complicity with it.

A Sunni Muslim, he is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, and formerly chaired Baghdad University's Department of petroleum engineering.

Dorman is an international scholar in the field of Egyptology and formerly chaired the University of Chicago's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

The current mission of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America is to " bring America to Orthodoxy " and has a very active Department on Mission and Evangelism which was chaired by Fr.

The committee, chaired by Senator Millard Tydings, was investigating McCarthy's claims of widespread Soviet infiltration of the State Department.

The station's design was assigned to the Ministry of Railway Institute's third department ( now the Third Railway Survey and Design Institute Group Co. Ltd ) with the station house building chaired by then renowned architects Yang Tingbao ( 杨廷宝 ) and Chen Deng-Ao ( 陈登鏊 ), the National Building and Industry Department and the Nanjing Institute of Architectural Design were to cooperate in the design tasks.

This small NSC coordinating panel was chaired by the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and included the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Director of Central Intelligence, and Bundy.

The Liberal statesman William Ewart Gladstone chaired the meeting of the Political Economy Club to celebrate the centenary of the publication of The Wealth of Nations.

From 2005-2009, Safoyev chaired the Foreign Political Affairs Committee of Oliy Majlis Senate of Uzbekistan and was then re-appointed to the same post on January 22, 2010.

Hughes met with the Victorian Political Executive of the Labor Party, chaired by Executive PresidentE. J.

The Constitutional Commission chaired by former New Zealand Governor General of New Zealand Sir Paul Reeves had recommended a total of 45 open and 25 communal constituencies, but the then-ruling Fijian Political Party of Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and the opposition NFP saw the communal constituencies allocated to indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians respectively as their power base and insisted on virtually reversing the ratio.

I must say I had qualms about it myself " Sauvé won, becoming one of five woman MPs, and was subsequently was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council and appointed as Minister of State for Science and Technology in the Cabinet chaired by Pierre Trudeau.

In 2004 she became president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and chaired the AAAS board in 2005.

He chaired the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation during the 109th Congress, becoming the committee's ranking member after the Democrats regained control of the Senate for the 110th Congress.

On March 5, 1958, James Killian, who chaired the President's Science Advisory Committee, wrote a memorandum to the President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

He is also a member of the Appropriations Committee ( where he chaired its subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science ) and Special Committee on Aging.

He specialises in science and technology issues-he chaired the Conservative policy group on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

He chaired the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology from 1992 – 93 and the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters from 1992-94.

Wiesel also has chaired the scientific advisory board of China's National Institute of Biological Science ( NIBS ) in Beijing, and co-chairs the board of governors of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology ( OIST ).

He has served on and chaired numerous scientific and academic panels, including the National Advisory Committee to the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation.

Glyer chaired the 1996 Worldcon, L. A. con III, the 54th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Anaheim, CA.

During this period he chaired Government enquiry into the decline in university entrants in science and technology, published in 1968 as ' The Swing away from Science ', and generally known as the Dainton Report.

Kyle chaired the 1956 14th World Science Fiction Convention ( NyCon II ), inspiring the fan catchphrase, " Dave Kyle says you can't sit here.

He also chaired the government ’ s Global Science and Innovation Forum from its inception.

Robert McMath was an adviser to the National Science Foundation in its early years and he chaired the panel that advised NSF on the need for a national observatory.

He also chaired the Czech Television Council and the Science and Philosophy section of the European Culture Club.

He chaired Stanford University's Computer Science Advisory Committee, and Carnegie-Mellon's Computer Science Advisory Board.

He chaired the Electronic Recording Committee which implemented the program of video recorded Police interviews in Tasmania in 1987, and established and chaired the Forensic Science Services Committee in 1988, has written and spoken about Victims Rights, Pretrial Disclosure, Committals and Procedural Reform.

After retiring from TVO in 1979 Ide chaired the federal Department of Communications Research Advisory Board, the Science Council of Canada's Communications board and served as acting vice-president of planning at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

At Duke he was Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Economics from 1972 to 1983, Chair of that department from 1983 to 1987, Acting Director of the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences in 1987, Director of the Center for Social and Historical Studies of Science from 1995 – 1999, and has twice chaired the Academic Council.