With Roald Hoffmann at the Fall ACS National Meeting in Boston,
August 2010
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Bassam is sworn in as
NSF Assistant Director
June 26, 1984, Washington, DC
With parents Dr. and Mrs. Zekin Shakhashiri and Dr. George "Jay" Keyworth III, science advisor to the President
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Addressing the National Science Board at its May 2007 annual meeting
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The Summit on Science
March 2004, Washington, DC
With Dr. John H. Marburger, Science Advisor to the President and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy; and
Dr. Rod Paige, U.S. Secretary of Education |
Featured speaker at the
DuPont Science Excellence Awards
June 2004, Wilmington, DE
With DuPont CEO Chad Holliday Jr. (l) and DuPont Senior VP & CTO Dr. Thomas M. Connelly Jr. (r)
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"The Scientist as Educator and Public Citizen: Linus Pauling and his Era"
October 2007, Oregon State University |
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Advancing the role of
women in chemistry
Spring 2005, UW-Madison |
Connecting with state elected officials
Wisconsin State Capitol
With Wisconsin State Representative Spencer Black
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With Glenn and Helen Seaborg
May 1988, US State Department's Thomas Jefferson State Reception Room |
A December 2009 reunion with Michael Thom, MD, who was a student in Bassam's first chemistry class in 1970 |
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With chemistry teachers
from South Africa |
Wisconsin Covenant: A Path to Higher Education for Wisconsin Students
April 2008, Madison, WI
With Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle |
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With Dr. Frank Press, President, National Academy of Science, December 1987 |
Greeting Singapore's Senior Minister of State for National Development and Education Ms. Grace Fu at the Science Weekend Gala, October 2008 |
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At the state capitol with Governor Carroll Campbell Jr. of South Carolina, 1987 |
UW Head Football Coach Barry Alvarez gives a guest enrichment lecture in Bassam's introductory chemistry course |
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With MIT President Emeritus Chuck Vest (now president of the National Academy of Engineering) on the campus of the American University of Beirut, April 2006 |
With Dr. Gail H. Marshall, Dr. Sharmistha Basu-Dutt, University of Georgia System Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr., and University of West Georgia President Beheruz Sethna, 2008
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20th Anniversary Symposium
"A Private Universe:
Misconceptions in Science"
March 2008, NSTA Boston Conference
With Heather Mars-Weber
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Cheryl A. Martin, chair, ACS Committee on Public Relations & Communications (left), and ACS Past-President Helen M. Free present the 2005 Free Award to Bassam |
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BU Alumni Association Distinguished Public Service to the Profession Award
October 1987, Boston University |
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African American Ethnic Academy
2005, Madison, WI
With Dr. Virginia Henderson
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The Annual Westinghouse Talent Search, National Academy of Sciences, March 1990, Washington, DC
With Vice President Dan Quayle |
1987 Presidential Awardee in Science Helen Stone (NC) at a White House Ceremony with William Graham, Science Advisor to the President; John Herrington, Secretary of Energy; Erich Bloch, Director, NSF; and Bassam Shakhashiri, NSF Assistant Director
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Presidential Science Initiative Award
May 1998,
Sacred Heart University
With fellow awardees Dr. Willard Welch of Pfizer, for development of the drug Zoloft; Don Herbert, Television's Mr. Wizard; and Dr. Kenneth M. Rosen, Vice President of the Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., for his key role in rotor craft technology |
Hach Scientific Foundation
Scholars' Annual Banquet
November 2007,
Fort Collins, CO
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