Dennis W. Barnes
President
Southeastern Universities Research Association

Dr. Dennis W. Barnes is president of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), a consortium of 41 universities in 13 southeastern states and the District of Columbia. SURA is the management and operating contractor to the U.S. Department of Energy for the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF), a $600 million construction project that is nearing completion in Newport News, Va. SURA also operates SURAnet, the oldest and largest of the regional networks in the NSFNET; SURAnet is a primary gateway to the Internet for universities, government, and others in the region. CEBAF staff total nearly 400 and SURAnet another 35.

Before taking the SURA presidency in mid-1992, Barnes was associate vice president for Governmental Relations for the University of Virginia (U. Va.). Over his 23-year career at U. Va., he held other positions including associate provost for research and professor. In the latter role, he taught courses in environmental law in the School of Law and the Department of Environmental Sciences. While at U. Va., he organized and was the first director of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium.

In 1976, Barnes took a leave from U. Va. to serve as assistant director for Science, Technology and Space on the Domestic Council in the Executive Office of President Gerald Ford; in 1981, he took another leave to serve a three-year term as chief scientist for the U.S. Senate Committee on Space, Science and Transportation. His other professional employment was as assistant to the director of the Martin Marietta Corporation corporate laboratories (1966-1969) and as a systems analyst for Analytic Services Corporation (1964-1966).

Barnes' other professional activities have included serving as president of the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA); on the Executive Committee of the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR); as frequent speaker at training sessions for senior governmental R&D managers conducted by The Brookings Institution; and as consultant to the National Science Foundation on research facilities.

Barnes received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Virginia (1964), his M.S. in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin (1960), and his B.A. from the College of Wooster (1958).

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