Russell Pinizzotto

Dr. Russell Pinizzotto was the first Dean of the Missouri Academy. Since none of the active posters on this wiki were present during his tenure, it's difficult to write his page.

With a bit of Googling, we found his staff page on the Academy website. Since this page is not linked to from anywhere we could find, there's no indication that its existence is any more than an accident, so as a means of archiving this text against loss, we reproduce it below. (22:42, 16 Jun 2006 (EDT))

Administration

• Term: 1999-2003
• Assistant Dean: Deborah Guffy [1]

Staff Page Text

Dr. Russell F. Pinizzotto was hired by Northwest Missouri State University in July 1999 to be the founding Dean of the Missouri Academy of Science, Mathematics and Computing. He is responsible for all aspects of Academy operations. Prior to this appointment, he spent 13 years at the University of North Texas in Denton in various academic positions. He was the founding chair of the Materials Science Department, Professor of Materials Science and Physics, and Multidisciplinary Research Director for the College of Arts and Sciences. While at UNT, he also established the Electron Microscopy Laboratory and the Center for Materials Characterization.

Dr. Pinizzotto was actively involved with the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science located on the UNT campus. He taught courses and seminars for TAMS, and TAMS students were successful members of his research group. One of them, Cyrus Pouraghabagher, was a national finalist in the Westinghouse (now Intel) Science Talent Search. He also founded ZZotto Enterprises, a consulting company that invented the integrated circuit fabrication board game, Fab Line.

Before joining UNT, Dr. Pinizzotto founded Ultrastructure, Inc., a company that used transmission electron microscopy to solve materials-related problems. He was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas where he established that company's first TEM laboratory. Dr. Pinizzotto has also worked at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratory in Yorktown, New York, Structural Composites Industries in Azusa, California, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Dr. Pinizzotto received his B.S. in Physical Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology, and an Engineer's Degree and Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (Materials Science) from the University of California at Los Angeles. He grew up in the small town of Hammonton, NJ. Dr. Pinizzotto is married to Robin Winters Johnson, a management consultant who co-founded Vidalia Associates. They have three children: Wendy (24) graduated from Mt. Holyoke College with a major in economics and is a human resources specialist for Arent-Fox, a major law firm in Washington, DC; Kirk (21) is a senior majoring in economics and political science at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas; and John (20) is a junior majoring in astrophysics at Indiana University, Bloomington.[2]