UI Alumni Association Hall of Fame - 1991
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Arden L. Bement, Jr.
Arden L. Bement, Jr., a 1959 graduate in metallurgy, is vice president of TRW, Inc., the 62nd largest United States corporation. He is the author of more than 90 articles, and the co-author of one book. In 1990, the United States Senate confirmed Bement's appointment to the National Science Board for a four-year term.

Bement began his career in 1954 as a research metallurgist and reactor project engineer with General Electric Company at the Hanford Atomic Products Operations in Richland, Wash. In 1970, Bement joined the faculty at MIT as professor of nuclear materials. In 1974 to 1976, he served as a member of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Bilateral Exchange Program in Magnetohydrodynamics. Two years later, he became director of Materials Sciences of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In 1979, he was appointed deputy under secretary of defense for Research and Engineering.

Ayodhya P. Gupta
Ayodhya P. Gupta, a 1964 graduate in entomology, is presently professor of entomology at Cook College, Rutgers University. He devotes his life to teaching and research focusing on insect immune systems, insect endocrinology, and insect morphology. Among his many honors Dr. Gupta is a Life Fellow of the Entomological Society of India.

Completing three degrees in his native country of India, Dr. Gupta came to Canada to be a teaching assistant at the University of British Columbia and continued his education and teaching skills when he received his doctorate at the University of Idaho.

In 1964 he became a research associate at Rutgers University, and four years later he was appointed professor. During Dr. Gupta's career he has chaired numerous professional committees, served on twenty-six graduate student committees, received grants and fellowships and founded the International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology.

Jack K. Lemley
Jack K. Lemley is a 1960 architecture graduate of the University of ldaho. He is chief executive officer of Transmanche Link, the English-French joint venture that is building the Channel tunnel between France and England. Prior to this project, he headed Lemley & Associates in Boise, a management consulting firm.
A Coeur d'Alene native, Lemley assumed control of the joint Anglo-French project to build a rail tunnel more than thirty miles long under the English Channel . He works fourteen to sixteen hours a day, seven days a week on the venture, referred to as the Achunnel."

Transmanche has 8,000 employees in the field, and another 1,000 engineers,administrative and professional people. With twenty-eight years of management experience, Lemley is often called upon for his expertise.

Victor Ransom
Victor H. Ransom is a 1955 graduate with a degree in chemical engineering and did his graduate studies at Sacramento State University. Ransom went on to earn his doctorate in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 1970. He is now the head of the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University. He also teaches graduate courses in advanced fluid mechanics at the University of Idaho program in Idaho Falls.

Ransom helped develop a code that is used internationally to investigate the response of light-water nuclear reactors (LWR) to hypothetical design-basis accidents and operational changes. Ransom's most significant contribution has been the development of the RELAP5 code that is now in use worldwide for the investigation of LER safety issues. He also assisted in the design of analytical models for choked flow, flow at abrupt area change, accumulators, pumps, valves, branches, steam generator components and the constitutive relations to support the basic two-fluid model for two-phase flow.