| 1 | Name: | Dr. Walter Eugene Massey | |
| Institution: | School of the Art Institute of Chicago; City Colleges of Chicago; Morehouse College | ||
| Year Elected: | 1991 | ||
| Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
| Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1938 | ||
Dr. Walter E. Massey is currently president of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He served as president of Morehouse College, the nation's largest liberal arts institution for men, from 1995 to 2007. Dr. Massey is a former provost and senior vice president of the University of California system, former director of the National Science Foundation and founding director of the Argonne National Laboratory at the University of Chicago. He received a B.S. in physics and mathematics from Morehouse, and a master's and doctorate in physics from Washington University, St. Louis. Dr. Massey is chairman of Great Schools Atlanta and a member of the Atlanta University Center Council for Presidents, the Atlanta Committee for Progress the Atlanta Regional Commission for Higher Education and the Rotary Club of Atlanta. He is also a member of the board of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and has been a member of the President's council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a position he held previously from 1990-1992, and the board of the Marine Biological Laboratory. Dr. Massey serves on the boards of the Gates Millennium Senior Advisory Council, the Mellon Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, Motorola, Inc., Bank of America, McDonald's Corporation, BP, p.l.c., and the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. In 2016 he was awarded the Public Humanities Award of Illinois Humanities. | |||