The Project was launched in 1986 by CharlesDeLisi, who was then Director of the US Department of Energy's Health and Environmental Research Programs.
The goals and general strategy of the Project were outlined in a two-page memo to the Assistant Secretary in April 1986, which helped garner support from the DOE, the OMB and Congress, especially Senator Pete Domenici.
President Clinton had already awarded the Citizen's medal to DeLisi for his seminal role in the Project, in January 2000, before the completion of the Project was announced.
Nationally known scientist CharlesDeLisi, a finalist for the chancellor's job at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, said during a public forum Thursday that a major challenge in this century is ensuring that the fruits of scientific endeavors are available to everyone, not just the wealthy and the West.
DeLisi currently holds faculty appointments as well as the rank of senior associate provost for biosciences at Boston University.
DeLisi said there would be "zero chance" he would come to Milwaukee if his wife, Lynne, a well-known professor of psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine, wasn't given a comparable position in Wisconsin.
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