You are invited to a celebration honoring Richard D. McCullough as he receives the Thomas Lord Professorship in Chemistry Friday, September 3, 2010 4:30-6:30 p.m. Reception and Program Posner Center Lobby Between Posner Hall and the College of Fine Arts building Carnegie Mellon University   RSVP to Krista Quinlan at kbp@andrew.cmu.edu or 412-268-7947 by Friday, August 27, 2010.
	RICHARD D. MCCULLOUGH Richard McCullough is the world’s leading expert in the area of printable electronics. He discovered and developed regioregular polythiophenes, a material that led to commercial plastic transistors and plastic solar cells. He also discovered the first highly conductive block copolymers, the living synthesis of conductive polymers, and transistor paint – highly reproducible, disordered polymers with high hole mobilities. His research focuses on the design and understanding of the structure-property relationships in organic transistors and solar cells as well as nanoelectronics. In 2007, Dr. McCullough was appointed to a new senior leadership position, vice president for research, in which he nurtures interdisciplinary research initiatives and oversees sponsored research and technology commercialization. He has also built an innovation ecosystem at Carnegie Mellon that promotes the formation of spin-out companies. Dr. McCullough joined the chemistry faculty in 1990 and served as head of the chemistry department from 1998 until his appointment as dean of the Mellon College of Science in 2001. Dr. McCullough is also a founder, board member, and chief scientist of Plextronics, Inc., the world leader in developing active layer technology for printed electronics devices, such as organic light-emitting diode displays, polymer solar cells and plastic circuitry. Since its inception in 2002, the Pittsburgh company has grown to more than 70 employees and received numerous honors, among them being named a 2008 GoingGreen Top 100 Company and a Wall Street Journal Technology Award runner-up. Dr. McCullough earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Texas at Dallas and his doctorate in organic chemistry from Johns Hopkins University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. Dr. McCullough is married to Jai Vartikar and has two sons, Jason, a student at Harvard and Dylan, a competitive tennis player. THOMAS LORD Inventor and corporate leader Thomas Lord was a visionary committed to furthering research and innovation at prestigious research universities. Both during his lifetime and through his estate, Mr. Lord has been a strong supporter of Carnegie Mellon. Mr. Lord earned his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Yale’s Sheffield Scientific School in 1928. During his student years, he began working with the Lord Manufacturing Company founded by his father in 1924 in Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. Lord soon developed an entirely new concept of airplane engine mountings for his father’s company to manufacture. They were used on so many aircraft during World War II that the term “Lord Mount” became a generic term for such mountings. Mr. Lord helped the company transition from initial entrepreneurial ownership to professional management. In 1932, he was named general manager of the Lord Corporation. He was elected president in 1946 and chairman in 1968, and he remained chairman of the executive committee until his death in 1989. Mr. Lord promoted high quality in the corporation’s products as well as significant investment in research and development. His dedication to innovative research also shaped Mr. Lord’s philanthropy, leading to support for Carnegie Mellon, Duke, University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Cleveland Clinic. Lord professorships honor faculty whose work has a profound impact on the university, research and society. Mr. Lord was a lifetime member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and a member of the American Management Society. He was also instrumental in establishing the former National Symposium of Technology and Society and its annual awards.