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Willie E. May, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research and Economic Development
Morgan State University
Dr. Willie E. May serves as Vice President for Research and Economic Development at Morgan State University. He previously served as the Senate-Confirmed Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology, a position created in the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, and as Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Dr. May began his career as a bench Chemist at NIST and went on to work at every management level within the organization. His personal research activities were focused in the areas of trace organic analytical chemistry and physico-chemical properties of organic compounds, where his work is described in more than 90 peer-reviewed technical publications. He has given more than 250 invited lectures at Conferences and Symposia around the world.
Dr. May currently serves on the Boards of Directors for Consumer Reports and the Maryland Technology Development Corporation’s Innovation Initiative. He also serves on the Science Committee of NASA’s Advisory Council.
Until recently Dr. May maintained several international leadership responsibilities including Vice President of the International Committee on Weights and Measures (CIPM); President of the CIPM’s Consultative Committee on Metrology in Chemistry and Biology and the Scientific Advisory Board’s for the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and China’s National Institute of Metrology (NIM).
Dr. May earned his B.S in Chemistry from Knoxville College (1968) and his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park (1977).
Why am I at Morgan, after working for the federal Government for 45+ years?
“In reflection, I realized that that I owed so many people who had struggled in the background to provide me with career opportunities that I could never have dreamed of while growing up there in Birmingham during the 1950’s and early 1960’s. I began to think that the best way to repay some of the debt that I owed was to work at an HBCU and try to share some of my knowledge, experiences and contacts that I had accumulated over the course of my very improbable career.”
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