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Cecil J. "Pete" Silas, ChE 53, and Catherine Brechignac, president of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, will receive honorary doctoral degrees at Georgia Tech's fall commencement ceremony in December.
Silas, former chairman and CEO of Phillips Petroleum, served as a trustee of the Georgia Tech Foundation for 18 years and continues his relationship with the organization as a trustee emeritus. He served on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board for six years, including a one-year term as its chairman. Silas also chaired the National Campaign Steering Committee for the five-year Campaign for Georgia Tech, which began with a $300 million goal and raised more than $700 million.
He is a member of The Hill Society, which recognizes the Institute's principal philanthropists. He has received the Joseph Mayo Pettit Alumni Distinguished Service Award, the Georgia Tech Alumni Exceptional Achievement Award and the Scholar-Athlete Total Person Award.
Brechignac is a specialist in atomic physics working at the interface of nuclear and molecular physics. She has been a research collaborator with Institute faculty since the early 1990s. In 2001 she was named an adjunct professor of physics and distinguished visiting scholar chair at Georgia Tech.
The Institute has been collaborating with the CNRS since 1998, when a joint telecom lab opened on the Georgia Tech Lorraine campus in Metz, France. The relationship was strengthened with the formation of a partnership between Tech and CNRS to engage in research of mutual interest.
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