President John S. Toll Chancellor Michael Hooker

President Chancellor John S. Toll Michael Hooker ohn Sampson Toll, an internationally ichael Hooker, educator, philos respected educator and scientist, was opher, and bioethicist, was named inaugurated president of the University chancellor of the University of of Maryland on April 30, 1979. The son Maryland Baltimore County on of a noted government attorney, John July 1, 1986. He came to UMBC Toll was born in Denver but grew up in after distinguished service at Maryland's Bethesda-Chevy Chase area. Harvard University, the Johns Interested in science at an early age, he graduated Hopkins University, and Bennington College. from Yale University in 1944 with highest honors in As UMBC's fourth chancellor, Dr. Hooker is the physics. By 1952 he had earned both his master's chief administrator of the newest of the University and doctoral degrees in physics from Princeton of Maryland's five campuses, a facility with nearly University. 9,300 students, a faculty of over 400, and an While a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton, Dr. Toll operating budget of $65 million. served as a theoretical physicist at the Los Alamos Born August 24, 1945, in Richlands, Virginia, (N.M.) Scientific Laboratory. Then he became Dr. Hooker is a 1969 summa cum laude graduate of associate director of Project Matterhorn, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He Princeton's Forrestal Research Center, one of the earned the M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1973) in philos nation's finest facilities for research on fusion ophy from the University of Massachusetts at processes. Amherst. In 1953, the University of Maryland recruited Dr. Dr. Hooker joined the Harvard University philos Toll, then just 29 years old, to head its six-member ophy faculty in 1973. In 1975 he came to Baltimore physics department at College Park. Under his to the Johns Hopkins University, first to teach direction for 12 years, the department gained more (1973-75), then to be assistant dean, then associate than 70 members, added an astronomy division, dean, and, soon after, dean of graduate and and gained a national reputation for excellence, undergraduate studies (1977-82). He went on to ranking among the top 12 physics departments in become President of Bennington College (1982-86), the country. a presidency chronicled by Yale's School of Manage Dr. Toll left UMCP in 1965 to accept the ment as an example of excellent management. presidency of the State University of New York at Author and editor of two books and more than Stoney Brook, a position he held until his appoint twenty articles, Dr. Hooker is a former Danforth ment as president of the University of Maryland Associate and Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow. in 1978. He has received two Harvard Graduate Society A former national chairman of the Federation Faculty Research Grants and, while at Hopkins, of American Scientists, Dr. Toll has served on was given the prestigious Homewood Award "for numerous national and international scientific ad outstanding service to students, to student life, and visory groups. His research articles have appeared to the university." in American, Danish, Swiss, and Italian scientific Dr. Hooker is a frequent lecturer and colloquium journals. He has served as John Simon Guggenheim speaker, one of whose favorite topics is ethical Research Fellow and as a Visiting Professor at the issues in science, especially biotechnology. He is a University of Lund (Sweden), the Nordic Institute of strong advocate that we as a society chart ethically Theoretical Physics, and the Niels Bohr Institute of correct courses to keep ourselves consonant with the the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). rapid scientific strides we are making. His goal for Dr. Toll is the recipient of numerous awards in UMBC is to make it "the best public university of cluding the Copernicus Medal from the government its size in the country ... the university for the 21st of Poland, (1973); an honorary Doctor of Science century." degree from the University of Maryland (1973); an Dr. Hooker, his wife Anna, and daughter Alexandra honorary Doctor of Science degree from the Univer live in Baltimore City. He is committed to helping sity of Wroclaw, Poland, (1975); an honorary LL.D. the city begin to think of UMBC as its University of degree from Adelphi University, (1978); and the Maryland and to "building bridges to Baltimore Distinguished Service Award of the State of that will strengthen the whole university." Maryland, (1981). 2 3 .

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