Dr. John Mateja has an interesting background both in and outside of higher education.  After earning his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Notre Dame, he was a post-doctoral research associate at Florida State University.  In 1988, he joined the staff at Argonne National Laboratory where he had oversight responsibility for all undergraduate, graduate student, and faculty outreach programs.  In 1994, he joined the staff at the Department of Energy headquarters to co-manage a new grant program to assist non-competitive states to become more grant competitive for federal research funding.  In 1998, Dr. Mateja came to Murray State University as the Dean of the College of Science, Engineering, and Technology.  Today he is the Director of the Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity Office and the McNair Scholars Program, as well as Chair of the statewide Posters-at-the-Capitol program Organizing Committee.  Dr. Mateja is also a member of the Boards of the Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation and the Kentucky EPSCoR Committee. During 2008 and 2009, Dr. Mateja was on leave from Murray State University working at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC.

 

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