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Nortel Announces Dr. Kristina M. Johnson Appointment to the Board of Directors
Nortel Announces Dr. Kristina M. Johnson Appointment to the Board of Directors.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nTORONTO, Nov. 7 /CNW/ - Nortel(x) (NYSE/TSX: NT) announced that\nDr. Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University's Edmund T. Pratt, Jr.,\nSchool of Engineering, has been appointed to the Company's Board of Directors,\neffective immediately.\nJohnson has been with Duke University since 1999. As dean of the Pratt\nSchool of Engineering, she oversees more than 1100 undergraduates, 440\ngraduate students and 120 tenure track and non-tenure track faculty. She\njoined Duke from the University of Colorado, where she served as a professor\nof Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1985-1999.\nJohnson has helped start several companies including ColorLink, Inc., and\nsits on several corporate Board of Directors including Mineral Technologies\nInc., Boston Scientific Corporation, and AES Corporation. She also currently\nserves on the advisory boards of the Colorado School of Mines, the Georgia\nInstitute of Technology School of Engineering, the Duke Childrens' Classic,\nand the Institute for Emerging Issues.\nJohnson received her B.S., M.S. (with distinction) and Ph.D. in\nelectrical engineering from Stanford University. She completed a NATO\npost-doctoral fellowship at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and was a\nFulbright Fellow in 1991. Johnson has published more than 140 refereed papers\nand proceedings, holds forty-three patents, and has pioneered work in liquid\ncrystal-on-silicon (LCOS) microdisplays, a marriage of LC electro-optic\nmaterials and VLSI technology.\n\"I am pleased to announce Dean Johnson's appointment,\" said Harry Pearce,\nchairman of Nortel's Board of Directors. \"Her insight and experience will\ngreatly benefit Nortel and contribute to our focus on innovation and R&D\neffectiveness.\"\nJohnson has also been appointed to the Nortel Networks Limited Board of\nDirectors.\n\nAbout Nortel\n\nNortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities\nthat enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and\nsecure and protect the world's most critical information. Our next-generation\ntechnologies, for both service providers and enterprises, span access and core\nnetworks, support multimedia and business-critical applications, and help\neliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying\nnetworks and connecting people with information. Nortel ...