Background
Umminger, Bruce Lynn was born on April 10, 1941 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Frederick William and Elnora Mae (Waltemathe) Umminger.
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Umminger, Bruce Lynn was born on April 10, 1941 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Son of Frederick William and Elnora Mae (Waltemathe) Umminger.
Bachelor of Science in Biology magna cum laude with honors, Yale University, 1963. Master of Science, Yale University, 1966. Master of Philosophy, Yale University, 1968.
Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1969. Postgraduate, University California, Berkeley, 1963—1964. Certified university administrative/management training program, University Cincinnati, 1975.
Certified, Federal Executive Institute, 1984.
Assistant professor department biological science University Cincinnati, 1969-1973, associate professor department biological science, 1973-1975, acting head department biological science, 1973-1975, professor department biological science, 1975-1981, director graduate affairs, 1978-1979. Program director regulatory biology program National Science Foundation, Washington, 1979-1984, department director cellular Biosciences division, 1984-1989, member senior executive service, 1984—2006, acting division director, 1985-1987, 88-89, division director cellular Biosciences division, 1989-1991, division director integrative biology and neuroscience, 1991—1999, senior scientist office integrative activities, office of director, 1999—2006, consultant, 2006—2009, The Implementation Group, Washington, since 2006, University Nebraska, since 2006. Senior advisor on health policy Office of International Health Policy Department State, Washington, 1988.
Senior advisor on biodiversity Smithsonian Institution, 1993-1994. Executive secretary National Science Board Committee on Centers and Individual Investigator Awards, 1986-1988. Review panel experimental program to stimulate competitive research National Science Foundation, 1989, Research Improvement in Minority Institutions, 1986-1987, United States-India Cooperative Research Program, 1981-1982, United States-India Exchange of Scholars Program, 1979-1981.
Vice chairman biotechnology research subcommittee Federal Coordinator Council on Science Engineering and Technology, Office Science and Technology Policy, 1991-1994. Executive secretary subcommittee biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics, committee on environment and natural resources National Science and Technology Council, 1994, interagency working group on research misconduct policy implementation, 2000-2006. Group national experts on safety in biotechnology Organization of European Cooperation and Development, 1988-1989.
Senior executive panel Executive Potential Program, Office Personnel Management, 1988-1989. Space shuttle proposal review panel in life science National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1978, research associates in space biology award committee, 1985-1991, chairman cell and development biology discipline working group, space biology program, 1990-1991, chairman gravitational biology panel, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Specialized Centers Research and Training, 1990, chairman specialized centers research and training peer review panel National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1995, executive steering committee in life science, 1991, gravitational biology facility science working group, 1992-1995, space station biological research project science working group, 1995-1996, neurolab. steering committee, 1993. Panel study biological diversity, Board Science and Technology International Development National Research Council, 1989.
Executive secretary advisory planning board National Biodiversity Information Center, Smithsonian Institution, 1993-1994. Advisory screening committee in life science Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 1978-1981. Liaison representative national heart, lung and blood advisory council National Institutes of Health, 1979-1987, national advisory child health and human development council, 1990-1999.
Recombinant DNA advisory committee, 1988. Liaison representative agricultural biotechnology Research Advisory committee, United States Department of Agriculture, 1989-1994. Animal committee Interagy.
Research, 1984-1988; Interagy. working group on International Biotechnology, 1988-1994. Chairman proposal panel in biology Science Foundation Ireland, 2002, Human Proteomics Site Visit, 2003. Consultant University Nebraska, since 2007.
Member world mission committee Church of the Redeemer, New Haven, 1967-1968. Sunday School steering committee Calvary Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, 1972-1973. Senior acolyte, 1972-1977, adult education committee, 1975-1976.
Deacon Faith Presbyterian Church, Springfield, Virginia, since 1996. Advising committee member Wakefield H.S., 1991-1992, Parent-Teachers Association Executive Board, 1991-1992. Science advising committee Arlington Public Schools, 1987-1992, advisory county on instruction, 1991-1992.
Advisory board member Campbell Commercial College, Cincinnati, 1977-1979. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (county 1980-1983, 89-90, member program committee for 1989 annual meeting 1988, chairperson-elect section G-Biological Sciences 1987-1988, chairperson 1988-1989, retired 1989-1990), New York Academy Sciences. Member American Society Zoologists (secretary, member Executive Committee 1979-1981, chairman nominating committee 1981, secretary division of comparative physiology and biochemistry 1976-1977, chairman Congressional Science Fellow Program committee 1986-1989, member 1991-1993), Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, American Physiological Society (program advising committee 1978-1981, program Executive Committee, 1983-1986, member steering committee, comparative pysiology section 1978-1981, secretary American Physiological Society-American Society Zoologists Task Force on Comparative Physiology 1977-1978), American Institute Biological Sciences (chairman selection committee congressional fellow liaisons committee 1991), American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology, Senior Executives Association, Association of Yale Alumni (delegate 1990-1993), Mory's Association, Yale Club (Washington), Masons (32 degree), Knights Templar, Shriners, Sigma Xi (Distinguished Research award University Cincinnati chapter 1973, president U. Cincinnati chapter 1977-1979), Mensa, Promise Keepers.
Married Judith Lackey Bryant, December 17, 1966. Children: Alison Grace, April Lynn.