28 Facts About Albert Carnesale

Albert Carnesale was born on July 2,1936 and is an American academic and a specialist in arms control and national security.

Albert Carnesale is a former chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, provost of Harvard University, and dean of the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University.

Albert Carnesale was acting president of Harvard while President Neil L Rudenstine was on leave for three months.

Albert Carnesale has been active in international diplomacy on nuclear arms control and nuclear non-proliferation.

Albert Carnesale was born on July 2,1936, in the Bronx, New York.

Albert Carnesale's father was a taxi driver; his mother was an office clerk.

Albert Carnesale graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, where admission is based solely on a competitive written exam.

Albert Carnesale received a master's degree in mechanical engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia in 1961 and a PhD in nuclear engineering at North Carolina State University in 1966.

Albert Carnesale served on the nuclear engineering faculty at NCSU from 1962 to 1969 and as professor and head of the Division of University Studies from 1972 to 1974.

Albert Carnesale became a member of the Harvard faculty in 1974, and concentrating on the study of international relations, national security policy, and nuclear arms control.

Albert Carnesale said the solution lay in finding the right balance and respecting each other's contribution.

In 1994, Albert Carnesale was tapped to fill the role of university provost, where he served until 1997.

Albert Carnesale was key to the university's $2.1 billion capital campaign and efforts to apply information technology to academic and administrative operations.

Albert Carnesale was part of the campaign to draw together Harvard's nine different faculties.

In November 1994, Albert Carnesale was appointed acting president of Harvard while President Rudenstine was on medical leave due to exhaustion.

On July 1,1997, Albert Carnesale was appointed chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles, a position he held until June 30,2006.

Albert Carnesale arrived at UCLA when the UC system was facing soaring costs and sharp budget cuts.

Albert Carnesale said the university must remain affordable for all Californians.

Albert Carnesale believed diversity was essential in order for UCLA to fulfill its responsibilities as a public university.

Albert Carnesale said affirmative action is just one means of achieving diversity.

Albert Carnesale replied that while he supported diversity on campus, he could not ignore Prop 209.

Albert Carnesale launched the California Nanosystems Institute, the Broad Stem Cell Research Institute, the Nazarian Center for Israeli Studies, and the Institute for Society and Genetics.

Albert Carnesale said there were relatively few people working in national security who had Ph.

In 1980 Albert Carnesale was nominated by President Carter to be chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

In 2009, Albert Carnesale chaired a National Academies committee overseeing efforts to outline "America's Climate Choices" at the request of Congress.

Albert Carnesale chaired the National Academies Committees on NASA's Strategic Direction, on Nuclear Forensics and on the US Conventional Prompt Global Strike.

Albert Carnesale is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Albert Carnesale was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008.