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W. Henry Lambright

W. Henry Lambright

Contact Information:

whlambri@syr.edu

315.443.3308

413 Maxwell Hall

W. Henry Lambright

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department


Courses

Energy, Environment, and Resources Policy (graduate)
Science, Technology and Policy (graduate)
Technology, Politics, and the Environment (undergraduate) 

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1966

Bio

W. Henry Lambright is professor of political science and public administration and international affairs, and director of the Science and Technology Policy Program of the Center for Environmental Policy and Administration.

His research interests include federal decision-making on space technology, environmental policy, trans-boundary issues, national security, the integration of science with policy, ecosystem management, biotechnology, technology transfer and leadership issues. 

Lambright has written scores of articles and has written or edited eight books, including "Why Mars: NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration," "Powering Apollo: James E. Webb of NASA" and "pace Policy in the 21st Century." He earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1966.

Areas of Expertise

Science and technology policy, environmental policy and administration

Research Interests

Science, technology and public policy, environmental policy, executive leadership, bureaucratic politics 

Research Grant Awards and Projects

NSF, “Transforming NASA: Space Technology in the Goldin Years”

NASA, “NASA and the Environment: The Case of Ozone Depletion”

Center for Environmental Policy and Administration / National Security Program of Maxwell School, “Deploying a U.S.-Russian Space Station: Dan Goldin’s Catch-22”

IBM, “Managing Big Science: The Challenge of Coordination” 

Publications

Book, Why Mars: NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration, 2014.

Book, Space Policy in the 21st Century, 2002.

Book, Powering Apollo: James E. Webb of NASA, 1995.

Monograp, "Managing ‘Big Science’: A Case Study of the Human Genome Project" (Washington, D.C.: PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government, 2002).

Article, “North American Smog: Science Policy Linkages Across Multiple Boundaries,” Canadian-American Public Policy (April 2001).

Chapter in Book, “The Battle to Destroy Chemical Weapons,” in, V. Franke Ed., Security in a Changing World: Case Studies in U.S. National Security Management (Westpoint, Connecticut: Praeger, 2002).