Funding a Nuclear Education

Lori Barber began her tenure as President at College of Eastern Idaho (CEI) on August 1, 2024. She held several administrative roles at CEI prior to the role of President. She started at CEI as Director of General Education and then became the inaugural Dean of General Education in 2018.

Barber became Vice President of Academic & Student Affairs in June of 2019. Her innovative strategies have been instrumental in steering the direction of institutional growth and building the framework on which CEI’s current academic and student affairs structure has been built.

Barber holds a Doctorate of Educational Leadership and Innovation from Arizona State University. Her master’s degree is in Interdisciplinary Studies in History and Anthropology from Idaho State University. She has been involved in education at the K-12 and post-secondary realms for over twenty-five years.

Barber profoundly believes in the community college mission and recognizes the power of education to create hope and transform lives. She has been married for 36 years and has two grown sons. In her spare time, she teaches yoga, hikes in the Idaho wilderness, writes, and walks many miles with her two sweet dogs.

Lisa Marshall is the Immediate Past President and Executive Board Member of the American Nuclear Society. Marshall has been an active member, with leadership roles, since 2005. With over 23 years of engineering education experience spanning pre-college to graduate studies, Marshall is the Director of Outreach, Retention and Engagement (starting in 2001), and the Assistant Extension Professor (starting in 2023) at North Carolina State University Department of Nuclear Engineering.

Marshall is co-principal investigator or education outreach director on several U.S. Department of Energy-funded consortia. She teaches in the First-Year Engineering Program, developed & teaches an upper-level Energy Geographies course, co-directs the Study Abroad Program in Engineering and Social Sciences, and serves on the Working Council for the Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) Living & Learning Village.

Lisa Marshall is a member of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Council of Advisers, sits on several of the NEA Global Forum on Nuclear Education, Science, Technology and Policy working groups, and chairs the working group on Building a Pipeline of STEM Professionals.

Professor Marshall leads the NEO Research Group, a multi-university set of scholars focused on engagement initiatives to introduce, attract, and retain students in the STEM field with a focus on nuclear science & technology.

In 1998, Williamson established University-Laboratory Associates (ULA) where he developed and managed nuclear science and engineering education and research programs for the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2001, ULA merged with the South Carolina Universities Research and Education Foundation (SCUREF) to form a not-for-profit university consortium representing the research institutions in South Carolina. That same year, Williamson was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer for SCUREF.