Biographies
Paul H. Nitze Award:
Paul Henry Nitze was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, but moved with his family when his father was named head of the department of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago. The Nitzes were a prosperous and cultivated family of German descent. They traveled frequently to Europe and maintained ties with family in Germany. At age seven, Paul Nitze was hiking in the Tyrol with his parents and sister when World War I broke out. Their return to the United States was delayed for many anxious days by the disruption of European shipping. The seven-year-old boy witnessed the aftermath of a terrorist bombing in the Munich train station, and saw crowds of wounded soldiers returning from the front. After the family's return to the United States, Nitze closely followed America's entry into the war and the punitive terms imposed on Germany. He was struck that his father and his fellow academicians, for all of their learning, were unable to influence events around them, either to prevent a catastrophic war or to secure a fair and lasting peace. Read the full biography on the Academy of Achievement website. Back to top
Senator Richard G. Lugar is an unwavering advocate of U.S. leadership in the world, strong national security, free-trade and economic growth.
This fifth generation Hoosier is the U.S. Senate's most senior Republican and longest serving Member of Congress in Indiana history.
He is the Republican leader of the Foreign Relations Committee and a member and former chairman of the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976 and won a sixth term in 2006 with 87 percent of the vote, his fourth consecutive victory by a two-thirds majority.
Senator Lugar graduated first in his class at both Shortridge High School in Indianapolis and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He attended Pembroke College at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, studying politics, philosophy, and economics. Senator Lugar volunteered for the U.S. Navy in 1957, ultimately serving as an intelligence briefer for Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations.
Senator Lugar manages his family's 604-acre Marion County corn, soybean, and tree farm. Before entering public life, he helped manage the family's food machinery manufacturing business in Indianapolis with his brother Tom.
As the two-term mayor of Indianapolis (1968-75), he envisioned the unification of the city and surrounding Marion County into one government. Unigov, as Mayor Lugar's plan was called, set the city on a path of uninterrupted economic growth. He served three terms on the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, including two terms as the Vice-Chair of the Commission, and served as President of the National League of Cities.
Senator Lugar has been a leader in reducing the threat of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. In 1991, he forged a bipartisan partnership with then-Senate Armed Services Chairman, Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), to destroy these weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union. To date, the Nunn-Lugar program has deactivated more than 7,500 nuclear warheads that were once aimed at the United States.
As Chairman of the Agriculture Committee, Senator Lugar built bipartisan support for 1996 federal farm program reforms, ending 1930s era federal production controls. He has promoted broader risk management options for farmers, research advancements, increased export opportunities and higher net farm income. Senator Lugar initiated a biofuels research program to help decrease U.S. dependency on foreign oil. He also led initiatives to streamline the U.S. Department of Agriculture, reform the food stamp program and preserve the federal school lunch program.
Combining his experiences on the Foreign Relations and Agriculture Committees and recognizing that energy security impacts every aspect of life in the United States, from the cars we drive and how much we pay at the gas pump to our vulnerability to foreign terrorism and our relationships with other countries, Senator Lugar launched the Lugar Energy Initiative.
Senator Lugar has promoted policies that spur economic growth, cut taxes, lead to job creation, eliminate wasteful government spending and reduce bureaucratic red tape for American businesses.
His Hoosier commonsense has been recognized many times including such awards as Guardian of Small Business, the Spirit of Enterprise, Watchdog of the Treasury, and 46 honorary degrees from colleges and universities in 15 states and the District of Columbia. He was the fourth person ever named Outstanding Legislator by the American Political Science Association.
Richard Lugar and his wife, Charlene, were married September 8, 1956, and have four sons and thirteen grandchildren. Back to top
Hamsa Balakrishnan is an Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2006. Prior to joining MIT, she was a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the NASA Ames Research Center. Her research interests include optimization and control algorithms for air traffic, including scheduling, routing, integrating weather forecasts, and minimizing aviation-related emissions. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2008), the Kevin Corker Award for Best Paper in the USA/Europe ATM R&D Seminar (2011), and the 2012 AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award. Back to top
R. John Hansman is a Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics at MIT and the Director of the MIT International Center for Air Transportation. He conducts research in the application of information technology in operational aerospace systems. Dr. Hansman holds 6 patents and has authored over 250 technical publications. He has over 5300 hours of pilot in-command time in airplanes, helicopters and sailplanes including meteorological, production, and engineering flight test experience. Professor Hansman chairs the US Federal Aviation Administration Research Engineering & Development Advisory Committee (REDAC) as well as other national and international advisory committees. He is a fellow of the AIAA and has received numerous awards including the AIAA Dryden Lectureship in Aeronautics Research, the ATCA Kriske Air Traffic Award, a Laurel from Aviation Week & Space Technology, and the FAA Excellence in Aviation Award. Back to top
Melanie Sandberg is an Associate Technical Staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratories. Her current research is focused on minimizing the environmental impacts of aviation through operational strategies in the air traffic control system. She received her S.M. in Transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where her research was centered around airport surface operations. She also received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University. Prior to starting her master’s work, she worked in hardware design for IBM in Tucson, Arizona. She is interested in many facets of aviation, especially operational improvements in air traffic management. Back to top
Ioannis Simaiakis is a Management Consultant with McKinsey’s Operations Practice in Washington, DC. He received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on modeling and predicting taxi-out times and airport operations planning under uncertainty. Back to top
- Paul Henry Nitze biography
- Senator Richard G. Lugar, Award Recipient
Paul Henry Nitze was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, but moved with his family when his father was named head of the department of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago. The Nitzes were a prosperous and cultivated family of German descent. They traveled frequently to Europe and maintained ties with family in Germany. At age seven, Paul Nitze was hiking in the Tyrol with his parents and sister when World War I broke out. Their return to the United States was delayed for many anxious days by the disruption of European shipping. The seven-year-old boy witnessed the aftermath of a terrorist bombing in the Munich train station, and saw crowds of wounded soldiers returning from the front. After the family's return to the United States, Nitze closely followed America's entry into the war and the punitive terms imposed on Germany. He was struck that his father and his fellow academicians, for all of their learning, were unable to influence events around them, either to prevent a catastrophic war or to secure a fair and lasting peace. Read the full biography on the Academy of Achievement website. Back to top
Senator Richard G. Lugar is an unwavering advocate of U.S. leadership in the world, strong national security, free-trade and economic growth.
This fifth generation Hoosier is the U.S. Senate's most senior Republican and longest serving Member of Congress in Indiana history.
He is the Republican leader of the Foreign Relations Committee and a member and former chairman of the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976 and won a sixth term in 2006 with 87 percent of the vote, his fourth consecutive victory by a two-thirds majority.
Senator Lugar graduated first in his class at both Shortridge High School in Indianapolis and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He attended Pembroke College at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, studying politics, philosophy, and economics. Senator Lugar volunteered for the U.S. Navy in 1957, ultimately serving as an intelligence briefer for Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations.
Senator Lugar manages his family's 604-acre Marion County corn, soybean, and tree farm. Before entering public life, he helped manage the family's food machinery manufacturing business in Indianapolis with his brother Tom.
As the two-term mayor of Indianapolis (1968-75), he envisioned the unification of the city and surrounding Marion County into one government. Unigov, as Mayor Lugar's plan was called, set the city on a path of uninterrupted economic growth. He served three terms on the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, including two terms as the Vice-Chair of the Commission, and served as President of the National League of Cities.
Senator Lugar has been a leader in reducing the threat of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. In 1991, he forged a bipartisan partnership with then-Senate Armed Services Chairman, Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), to destroy these weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union. To date, the Nunn-Lugar program has deactivated more than 7,500 nuclear warheads that were once aimed at the United States.
As Chairman of the Agriculture Committee, Senator Lugar built bipartisan support for 1996 federal farm program reforms, ending 1930s era federal production controls. He has promoted broader risk management options for farmers, research advancements, increased export opportunities and higher net farm income. Senator Lugar initiated a biofuels research program to help decrease U.S. dependency on foreign oil. He also led initiatives to streamline the U.S. Department of Agriculture, reform the food stamp program and preserve the federal school lunch program.
Combining his experiences on the Foreign Relations and Agriculture Committees and recognizing that energy security impacts every aspect of life in the United States, from the cars we drive and how much we pay at the gas pump to our vulnerability to foreign terrorism and our relationships with other countries, Senator Lugar launched the Lugar Energy Initiative.
Senator Lugar has promoted policies that spur economic growth, cut taxes, lead to job creation, eliminate wasteful government spending and reduce bureaucratic red tape for American businesses.
His Hoosier commonsense has been recognized many times including such awards as Guardian of Small Business, the Spirit of Enterprise, Watchdog of the Treasury, and 46 honorary degrees from colleges and universities in 15 states and the District of Columbia. He was the fourth person ever named Outstanding Legislator by the American Political Science Association.
Richard Lugar and his wife, Charlene, were married September 8, 1956, and have four sons and thirteen grandchildren. Back to top
Hamsa Balakrishnan is an Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2006. Prior to joining MIT, she was a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the NASA Ames Research Center. Her research interests include optimization and control algorithms for air traffic, including scheduling, routing, integrating weather forecasts, and minimizing aviation-related emissions. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2008), the Kevin Corker Award for Best Paper in the USA/Europe ATM R&D Seminar (2011), and the 2012 AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award. Back to top
R. John Hansman is a Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics at MIT and the Director of the MIT International Center for Air Transportation. He conducts research in the application of information technology in operational aerospace systems. Dr. Hansman holds 6 patents and has authored over 250 technical publications. He has over 5300 hours of pilot in-command time in airplanes, helicopters and sailplanes including meteorological, production, and engineering flight test experience. Professor Hansman chairs the US Federal Aviation Administration Research Engineering & Development Advisory Committee (REDAC) as well as other national and international advisory committees. He is a fellow of the AIAA and has received numerous awards including the AIAA Dryden Lectureship in Aeronautics Research, the ATCA Kriske Air Traffic Award, a Laurel from Aviation Week & Space Technology, and the FAA Excellence in Aviation Award. Back to top
Melanie Sandberg is an Associate Technical Staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratories. Her current research is focused on minimizing the environmental impacts of aviation through operational strategies in the air traffic control system. She received her S.M. in Transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where her research was centered around airport surface operations. She also received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University. Prior to starting her master’s work, she worked in hardware design for IBM in Tucson, Arizona. She is interested in many facets of aviation, especially operational improvements in air traffic management. Back to top
Ioannis Simaiakis is a Management Consultant with McKinsey’s Operations Practice in Washington, DC. He received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on modeling and predicting taxi-out times and airport operations planning under uncertainty. Back to top
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