Schacht And Schriesheim To Receive Honorary Degrees
January 19, 2001
University Park, Pa. — Penn State's Board of Trustees approved today (Jan. 19) the granting of honorary degrees to Lucent Technologies chairman and chief executive officer Henry B. Schacht and Argonne National Laboratory former chief executive officer Alan Schriesheim.

Schacht will be awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters at a May 2001 commencement ceremony. Schriesheim will receive an honorary doctorate of science at an August 2001 commencement ceremony.

Schacht returned to Lucent Technologies last year, having most recently served as chairman of the Lucent spinoff, Avaya. He served as Lucent's first chairman and chief executive officer from 1995 to 1997, during its launch and first year as an independent company.

Schacht is on the board of directors of numerous corporations and is a member of The Business Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Management Executives' Society, and the U.S.-Japan Business Council. A graduate of Yale University, he received his M.B.A. from Harvard University.

Schriesheim recently retired from Argonne National Laboratory, where he broadened its research scope and expanded its relationships with other government, academic, and industrial organizations, both nationally and internationally. He joined Argonne after a long career with Exxon Corporation and was the first national laboratory director to be recruited from industry.

Schriesheim holds 22 U.S. patents and currently serves as Director Emeritus of Argonne National Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. A graduate of Brooklyn Polytechnic University, he received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Penn State.

Contact: Amy Neil, Department of Public Information, at (814) 865-7517 or e-mail aen4@psu.edu.