1994 Council On Ideas Members

Garrett Epps
Garrett Epps, is currently an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Oregon where he is a scholor on constitutional law and history, focusing on problems of race, violence and war. He received his law degree from Duke Law School in 1991. He clerked for Judge Butzner of the US Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit before joining the faculty at the University of Oregon Law School in the fall of 1992. Prior to that, Epps worked as a journalist and professional writer for fifteen years, including five years with the Washington Post. He has written articles for the New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly,and The Nation, among others. Epps is the author of two novels, The Shad Treatment (1977) and The Floating Island: A Tale of Washington (1985).

Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry is the founder and principal-in-charge of the architectual firm of Frank O. Gehry and Associates, Inc., Santa Monica, CA. Internationally acclaimed, Gehry's work has been described by New York Times architectual critic Paul Goldberger as "powerful essays in primal geometric form and...materials; and from an aesthetic standpoint, his buildings are among the most profound and brilliant works of architecture of our time." Gehry was awarded the premier accolade of the architectual field, the Pritzer Architectual Prize (1989), and is the recipient of numerous architectual design awards including the 1992 Wolf Prize (in art), and the 1992 Imperiale Award in Architecture. His recent work includes The American Center in Paris, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, the Center for the Visual Arts at University of Toledo and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain (currently in progress).

Arno Penzias
With AT&T from 1961-1996, Arno Penzias is currently Chief Research Scientist for Lucent Technologies where he is responsible for a broad range of research programs in the physical, materials, information and communication sciences. A pioneer in satellite communications research and radio astronomy, Penzias shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics for his part in the discovery of evidence supporting the "big bang" theory of the origin of the universe. He is the author of Digital Harmony (1995) and Ideas and Information (1989). He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the City College of New York and his Masters and Ph.D. from Columbia University.