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Obama appoints Lankan to key administrative post
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US President Barak Obama has appointed a Sri Lankan to a key administrative post. Dr. Tissa Illangasekare was named a member of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
Dr. Illangasekare is a Distinguished Endowed Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Centre for the Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes at the Colorado School of Mines, positions he has held since 1998. Dr. Illangasekare received a B.S. from the University of Ceylon in Sri Lanka, an M.Eng. from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand, and a Ph.D. from Colorado State University.
Previously, Dr. Illangasekare was a Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1986 to 1998.
From 1983 to 1986, he was an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Louisiana State University, and from 1978 to 1983, he was a Research Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Colorado State University.
In making the appointments, President Obama said, “I am pleased to announce that these experienced and committed individuals have decided to serve our country. I know they will serve the American people well.”