[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 20543]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             RECOGNIZING THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF DR. BILL MADIA

 Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. President, I wish to recognize the 
achievements of Dr. Bill Madia, President and CEO of UT-Battelle, and 
Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Bill will be 
stepping down in August to take on the new position of Executive Vice 
President of Laboratory Operations at Battelle headquarters in 
Columbus, OH. Over the past three years Dr. Madia has contributed 
greatly to the Lab's many successes, and I would like to thank him for 
his leadership and commitment to our State.
  ORNL is the largest of the Department of Energy's, Office of Science 
multi-program laboratories and to run a facility of its size is no 
simple task. Bill joined ORNL with more than 25 years of international 
experience in research and research management, including 15 years 
leading public and private research labs. He became the director of 
ORNL on April 1, 2000 and since then has continued the tradition of 
excellence at Oak Ridge.
  Bill Madia is a visionary who delivers results. Under his leadership, 
construction of the Spallation Neutron Source was initiated. The SNS 
will produce the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world and 
will be completed as expected in 2006. It is under Bill's direction 
that this project is progressing both on schedule and within budget.
  Dr. Madia is also responsible for a major renewal of the Laboratory 
through his modernization plan. He has enabled the private 
capitalization of several new buildings that will house the 
Laboratory's advanced computing assets. Bill also has been instrumental 
in building the Laboratory's nano-
technology initiative, and the first of the DOE's Nanoscience centers, 
the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, had its groundbreaking 
earlier this month.
  Oak Ridge has an extensive history of linking with universities and 
with Bill's guidance has expanded the use of these partnerships. Just 
recently, researchers of Oak Ridge, North Carolina State University, 
and University of Tennessee discovered how to tune the atomic-level 
zone of semi-conductor devices, the building blocks of computing chips. 
Additionally, he captured a leadership role in DOE's computational 
science initiative for Oak Ridge by building a partnership with 
industry to develop the next generation machine and attracting private 
sector financing to rapidly build a new facility necessary to operate 
world-class supercomputers.
  Bill understands the importance of science and the role that science 
development plays in our lives and in the future. He has continually 
taken the initiative to push forth all projects that Oak Ridge takes 
on. Our investments in science driven technology contribute greatly to 
the economic growth of this country, and during his tenure the UT-
Battelle team has helped with the creation of 30 new companies through 
the ORNL technology transfer program.
  Outside of the laboratory in the Oak Ridge community, Bill Madia has 
done an outstanding job in promoting economic sustainability and has 
been a vigorous promoter of education. In fact, he has remained a 
strong supporter of funding for high school science laboratories and 
the University of Tennessee's Academy for Math and Science.
  The people of Oak Ridge Tennessee and this Nation have benefited from 
all his hard work and will continue to benefit from Bill Madia's 
dedication as he continues his excellence as a member of the UT-
Battelle Board of Directors. Although, he will be missed dearly in 
Tennessee, I am confident that he will continue to make a difference in 
the community. I wish him the best of luck in his future 
endeavors.

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