W. Henry Lambright

Professor, Public Administration and Political Science

Degree

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1966

Specialties

Science and technology policy, environmental policy and administration

Publications

Book, Space Policy in the 21st Century, 2002.

Book, Powering Apollo: James E. Webb of NASA, 1995.

Monograph: Managing ‘Big Science’: A Case Study of the Human Genome Project (Washington, D.C.: PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government, 2002).

Article, “North American Smog: Science Policy Linkages Across Multiple Boundaries,” Canadian-American Public Policy (April 2001).

Chapter in Book, “The Battle to Destroy Chemical Weapons,” in, V. Franke Ed., Security in a Changing World: Case Studies in U.S. National Security Management (Westpoint, Connecticut: Praeger, 2002).

Courses

Fall 2009
Energy, Environment, and Resources Policy (graduate)

Spring 2010
Science, Technology and Policy (graduate)
Technology, Politics, and the Environment (undergraduate) 

Research Interests

Science, technology and public policy
Environmental policy
Executive leadership
Bureaucratic politics 

Research Projects

NSF, “Transforming NASA: Space Technology in the Goldin Years”

NASA, “NASA and the Environment: The Case of Ozone Depletion”

Center for Environmental Policy and Administration / National Security Program of Maxwell School, “Deploying a U.S.-Russian Space Station: Dan Goldin’s Catch-22”

IBM, “Managing Big Science: The Challenge of Coordination”