Lewis M. Duncan, Ph.D.
President, Rollins College
Lewis M. Duncan was elected 14th
president of Rollins College in March 2004. He is
former dean and professor of the Thayer School of
Engineering at Dartmouth College and was previously
provost and senior vice president for academic affairs
at the University of Tulsa.
President Duncan received his bachelor's
degree in physics and mathematics and his master's and
doctorate in space physics from Rice University in
Houston. As a National Science Foundation post-doctoral
fellow, he conducted research at the National Astronomy
and Ionosphere Center in Puerto Rico. He subsequently
joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a research
scientist, and later became a section head in the
Division of Earth and Space Sciences.
Following a year as a Carnegie
Science Fellow at Stanford University's Center for
International Security and Arms Control, he joined the
faculty of Clemson University as associate dean of the
College of Sciences. He was founding director of the
South Carolina Space Grant Consortium and remains a
fellow of Clemson's Thurmond Institute of Government and
Public Affairs. President Duncan serves on the Florida Technology, Research and Scholarship Board, and is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission and the Board of Trustees of the Winter Park Health Foundation.
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