ANS Washington DC Local Section George P. Shultz and James W. Behrens Graduate Scholarship

A native of New York City, George Shultz graduated from Princeton University in 1942. After serving in the Marine Corps (1942-45), he earned a PhD in industrial economics at MIT. Mr. Shultz taught at MIT and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, where he became dean in 1962.

He was appointed Secretary of Labor in 1969, Director of the Office of Management and Budget in 1970, and Secretary of the Treasury in 1972. From 1974 to 1982, he was President of Bechtel Group, Inc. Mr. Shultz served as Chairman of President Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981-1982) and as Secretary of State (1982-89). He was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in 1989.

After leaving office, he rejoined the Bechtel Group and also joined Stanford as a professor at the Graduate School of Business and as a Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Mr. Shultz is the author of numerous books and articles, including Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (1993).

James Behrens is a previous Board Member of the American Nuclear Society and is retired from his work as a Senior Technical Advisor for the U.S. Navy at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. He also previously held positions as a Senior National Security Analyst for Department of Defense (DOD) Contractors, was an Executive Assistant on numerous DOD, DOE, and DOS Interagency Working Groups, was Scientific Technical Advisor for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, J-5, Strategic Plans & Policy, International Negotiations; Experimental Nuclear Physicist at the National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg (1978–1989), was a Physicist & Graduate Student, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1970–1978), and a Lab Assistant, University of Illinois Betatron Lab (1968–1970). He has a B.S. from the University of Illinois and an M.S. and PhD/ABD from the University of California.