Ronald J. White, Ph.D. - Staff – CAMP

Ronald J. White

Professor and Director, Center for Advanced Materials Processing
ELC Building, Room 219
rwhite@mtech.edu
406-496-4342

Education

  • Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS (1973-75), Research Professor of Physiology
  • Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. (1968-70), Research Associate in Chemical Physics
  • Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, England (1967-68), NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Chemistry
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison (1963-67), Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry
  • University of Louisiana at Lafayette (1959-63), B.S. in Chemistry.

Appointments

  • South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (2009-14), Vice President for Research and Professor of Chemistry
  • Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (1996-2003), Professor of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, Associate Director, National Space Biomedical Research Institute.
  • Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD (1985-96), Research Professor of Physiology, also Senior Program Scientist (Chief Scientist), Life Sciences Division, NASA Headquarters
  • General Electric Company 1980-83), Senior Scientist, Biomedical Research, Analysis and Planning Group, Wahington and Houston
  • University of Louisiana at Lafayette (1970-80), Professor of Mathematics (1976-80), Director of Honors (1976-80), Associate Professor of Mathematics (1973-76), Assistant Professor of Mathematics (1970-73)

Awards & Honors (Selected List)

  • International Academy of Astronautics: (Elected 1996), Luigi Napolitano Literature Award for Humans in Space Textbook (1996), Life Scuiences Section Award (2010)
  • NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal (1992)
  • University of Louisiana at Lafayette Distinguished Professor Award (1978)
  • Theoretical Chemistry Institute, Madison (1963), First Group NASA Traineeship Award (1963-66)
  • Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1963)
  • University of Louisiana at Lafayette (1963): Valedictory Award, Outstanding Catholic Scholar Award, Pghi Kappa Phi Award, American Institute of Chemists Award

Publications (Selected from over 65 Peer-Review Publications)

  • R.J. White. A Note Regarding the Mathematical Treatment of a Class of Steady-State Compartmental Models of the Circulation. Physiol. Reports 4(17):1-11, 2016 DOI - 10.14814/phy2.12945.
  • M.Y. MacLeish, J.O. Akinyede, R.J. White, N. Goswami, W.A. Thomson. Global space workforce development: a model for partnership building and knowledge transfer to developing space faring societies. Acta Astronautica 116:106-116, 2015.
  • R.J. White, G.C.Y. Peng and S.S. Demir.  Multiscale Modeling of Biomedical, Biological, and Behavioral Systems (Part 1).  IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine 28:2, 12-13, 2009.
  • R. J. White and M. Averner.  Humans in Space.  Nature 409:1115-1118, 2001.
  • R. J. White.  Weightlessness and the Human Body.  Sci. Am. 279:38-43, 1998.  See Letters to the Editors, Sci. Am. 280:10-11, 1999.  Also, in German: Der Mensch in der Schwerelosigkeit.  Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 38-44, Dec. 1998; in French: Le corps humain en impesanteur.  Pour la Science, Nov. 1998; in Italian: Vivere in assenza di gravitá.  Le Scienze, Nov. 1998; in Polish, Cz³owiek w stanie niewa¿koœci.  Świat Nauki, Nov. 1998.
  • R. J. White and C. G. Blomqvist.  Central Venous Pressure and Cardiac Function During Spaceflight.  J. Appl. Physiol. 85(2):738-746, 1998.
  • N. H. March and R. J. White.  Non-Relativistic Theory of Atomic and Ionic Binding Energies for Large Atomic Number.  J. Phys. B 5:466-475, 1972.
  • R. J. White and F. H. Stillinger.  An Analytic Approach to Electron Correlation in Atoms.  J. Chem. Phys. 52:5800-5814, 1970.

Invited Lectures (Selected)

  • 2011 World Congress on Mathematical Modeling and Computational Simulation of Cardiovascular and Cardiopulmonary Dynamics, Williamsburg, VA: Plenary Lecture: Perspective from an Outsider:, Challenges in Large-Scale Biomedical Modeling, 2011
  • International Astronautical Federation Symposium "Celebrating Ten Years of the International Space Station," Paris, France: Medical Challenges for Humans in Space, 2008.
  • 16th IAA Humans in Space Symposium, Beijing, China: Plenary Lecture: Human Health and Performance in Space as Exploration Begins, 2007
  • 10th International Colloquium of the Institute of Adaptive and Spaceflight Medicine, Graz, Austria: Understanding Human Physiology in Space, 2006
  • Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference, Detroit, MI: The Digital Astronaut: an Integrated, Multiscale Modeling Project, 2005
  • 54th International Astronautical Congress, Bremen, Germany: Plenary Lecture: The Role of Modeling and Simulation in Physiology and Medicine, 2003
  • 40th Anniversary Symposium of the Institute for Biomedical Problems, Moscow: After Forty Years of Mathematical Modeling of Human Spaceflight, What Does the Future Hold?, 2003