email Dr. Greenwood
Ted Greenwood joined the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1992 and serves as a Program Director. His areas of responsibility include:
- Performance Assessment of Municipal Governments
- Retention of Students in Higher Education
- Increasing Ph.D.s for Underrepresented Minorities in Mathematics, Science and Engineering
- Promoting Women in Science and Engineering
- Other Programs for Women and Minorities
- Civic Projects
- Selected National Issues
Dr. Greenwood received a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Toronto, and an S.M. in physics and a Ph.D. in Political Science from M.I.T. He was the winner of the James Loudon Gold Medal in Mathematics and Physics at the University of Toronto in 1967 and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow during 1967-1968. He has written and published widely on U.S. and NATO defense and arms control policy; environmental, health and safety regulation; and domestic and international energy policy, especially nuclear power and nuclear waste management.
Dr. Greenwood has served as a consultant to the Institute for National Security Studies, National Defense University, 1988-1992; Pacific-Sierra Research Corporation, 1985-1992; the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1981; the State Planning Council on Radioactive Waste Management, 1980-1981; the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, 1977 and 1979-1980; and the U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1976-1977.
He has served on the Task Force on the FY 1992 - FY 1997 Defense Plan of the Defense Budget Project, 1991; the Technical Advisory Panel on Evaluation of Alternative Low-Level Waste Disposal Systems of the Department of Nuclear Safety, State of Illinois, 1985-1989; the Committee on Nuclear Safety Research of the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, 1985-86; the Advisory Panel on Cleanup of Uncontrolled Waste Sites Under Superfund of the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, 1983-1984; the Committee on Institutional Means for the Assessment of Risk to Public Health of the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, 1982; and the Panel on Peaceful Nuclear Explosions of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1975.