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Jack M. Wilson, Ph.D. , 
President-Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The University of Massachusetts, 

President, The University of Massachusetts system, The 25th President from September 2, 2003 to June 30, 2011. [Boston Globe]
Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, & Innovation  (Retired June 2022)
Chairman and President (Founder)  ILinc Software Corporation 1993-2000 [ILinc Chapter]  [ILinc-Home]
Founder:   Jack M. Wilson Center for Entrepreneurship  
President, (interim) The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate 2011-2012.  Also Member of Board 2008-2012
Chief Executive Officer-Founding of UMassOnline 2001-2003
Chair -Founding Chair of the Mass Green High Performance Computing Center  (MGHPCC)  (History)2009-2011
Chair, River Hawk New Venture Fund,  2014-present
Board Member: UMass Memorial Healthcare (System 2010-2018, Community Hospitals 2018-present, Governance and IT Comm.)
Founding Board Member and Chair Governance Comm., Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC)
Vice-Chair -Founding of $1 Billion Mass Life Science Center 2007-2011, (MLSC)
Founding Member of Massachusetts Clean Energy Center; 2009-2011
Chair, Investment Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts Innovation Institute of the Mass Technology Collaborative 2005-present
Chairman of the Board, U.S. Dept. of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE). 2010-2014
The National Security Higher Education Advisory Board (advising the FBI, CIA, and Homeland Security) 2010-2011
National Board of Directors of the American Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU) 2009-2011
National Chair of the Commission on Innovation Competitiveness and Economic Prosperity (CICEP) of APLU  2009-2011.
Member: National Academy of Science/National Research Council Committee on Undergraduate Education Research and Implementation 2010-2012
Member (former): National Board of Directors of the Alliance for Research in Science and Technology for America (ASTRA)
Member (former): The U.S. Council on Competitiveness. 
Chairman, New England Defense Technology Initiative 2011-2013

• FBI Award for Exceptional Service in the Public Interest  

• US Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal awarded for his work with the military technology education program.    

• Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, & Innovation  (Retired June 2011)

• Former Distinguished Professor of Physics, Engineering, Information Technology, and Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• Served as Department Chair, Research Center Director, Dean, Vice President, and Provost at four major research universities.

• Entrepreneur in the private sector:  founded the ILinc Corporation & served as President & Chairman until he sold it in 2000. 

• Founding Chair of the Mass Green High Performance Computing Center  (MGHPCC)  (History)2009-2011

• Founding Vice-Chair of $1 Billion Mass Life Science Center  2006-2011

• Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on 54 grants with 20 from NSF.

• Fellow of  the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the Online Learning Consortium (formerly the Sloan Foundation Consortium)
  and has received many awards for his work in technology in education, higher education policy, and technology driven economic development.

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Dr. Wilson established the Jack M. Wilson Presidential Scholarship Fund with a gift of an Insurance Policy worth $1,775,000 -funded with performance bonuses that he was to have received under his contracts over the years. 
To that was added $230,000 from a dinner honoring his retirement as President and another $120,000 raised during his inauguration. 
The total value of the Scholarship fund at his retirement as President in July of 2011 was over $2.1 million.  [Application]

     -Boston Business Journal:       UMass Prez Wilson chips in for $2.1M scholarship fund in his own name

    -Mass Live:                            UMass President Helps Establish Scholarship

   -University of Massachusetts:   News Release June 2, 2011.           Scholarship Agreement Text    Short Description

He has also created the Jack M. Wilson Endowed Presidential Entrepreneurship Award Fund to support the study of Entrepreneurship at UMass Lowell.  He continues to add to the funding of this endowment each year.   The total had reached over $400,000 by June 2022.   "Chancellor Announces New Campaign Gifts"

Selected articles and press coverage:

• Funding Higher Education  February 2023

• Profile done by Czech Magazine after my speaking tour of the Czech and Slovak Republics  [Profile Part 1]  [Profile -Part 2]

• Pictures From Interview by the Donahue Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility.  [Donahue Interview]

• Video done for the 10th Anniversary of the National Commission for Innovation, Competitiveness, and Economic Prosperity,
                  Past Chair and Founding Member   [VIDEO]

• Op-Ed Can we have Peace for our time?  Ukraine.

• Talk to RPI Ethics Class -Azita Hirsa -[Talk]

• Talk at Global Entrepreneurship Conference "Technological Entrepreneurship;"  July 9. 2018

• Talk at the Gamma Nu Eta National Honorary Society for Information Technology Meeting at RPI - April 19, 2017
                  [Growing Up With the Faculty of Information Technology- Challenges: Then and Now.] 

• Talks in Prague, Czech Republic and Bratislava, Slovakia on November 10-15, 2016 
                  [Entrepreneurship: Promoting Government-Industry-University Partnerships ]

• Tribute to Keith Motley as he concludes his service as Chancellor at UMass Boston [Speech Text]

• Sermon from 2006: "In an Age of Terror, is Reconciliation Possible?"

• COVID-19 Running summary of data modeling
• "Teaching Technological Entrepreneurship;" A webinar for the Global Entrepreneurship Program; 25 September 2019 [Presentation]
• Jack Wilson, Degerhan Usluel, and Mark Bernstein are named as the 2019 Entrepreneurs of the Year 
        by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Center for Technological Entrepreneurship 
        [Complete Announcement]  [ILinc Story]   [Slide Show]
  
• Video Tribute Reflecting on the Presidency of Dr. Jack M. Wilson who served from 2003-2011.  [Video Link]
•  UMass Lowell Commencement Speech    May 18, 2019  Jack M. Wilson
•  GE-2: Global Entrepreneurship Experience  July 8, 2019  Jack M. Wilson
•  BioTech East;  A workshop for post-docs and new PhDs to introduce them to how BioTech products are brought to market.---
                        Jack Wilson: “Lean Launch, Business Models & Technological Entrepreneurship"

• Memoirs -In preparation for publishing -384 pages tentative length  [Memoirs -Table of Contents]

• Boston Business Journal -MassHighTech: Jack Wilson on Leaving a Legacy

• UMass Lowell Commencement Speech 2019:

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