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updated December 10, 2009
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Former Resident Assistant Dean Woodward Gets Jess Lucas Alumni Leadership Award
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Dean Woodward, intellectual property legal counsel for Raleigh, N.C. based
RTI International, has received the Jess R. Lucas Alumni Leadership Award,
which recognizes a former member of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s
residence hall staff for having a distinguished post-graduate career.
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Lucas Award Winner:
Dean Woodward, a
1989 alumnus,
received the Jess
Lucas Alumni
Leadership Award
from Lucas' widow
Gwynne and Pete
Gustafson, vice
president of student
affairs and dean of
students. Lucas
served as Rose-Hulman's
vice president of
student affairs and
dean of students
from 1976 to 2000.
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Pete Gustafson, vice president of student affairs and dean of students, and
Lucas’ widow Gwynne presented the award during a dinner on December 8 with
members of Rose-Hulman’s residence life staff. Woodward also received a
special alumni award from Brian Dyer, executive director of alumni affairs.
Woodward, a 1989 chemical engineering graduate, joined RTI International in
2001 as its first in-house patent attorney, after passing the patent bar
examination in 2000. He is responsible for securing all patent, copyright
and trademark protection for the company. This portfolio now includes
approximately 400 U.S. and foreign patents, and approximately 160 pending
applications around the world. In addition to IP protection, Dean also
supports the licensing and commercialization of technology.
RTI is a multi-disciplinary research institute with more than 2,800
employees providing research and technical expertise to commercial and
governmental clients in more than 40 countries. The company was formed in
1958 as one of the first tenants of the Research Triangle Park and has
research areas covering health, education, statistics, international
development, economic and social policy, energy, environmental science and
chemistry.
During his eight years at RTI, Woodward has assisted in the creation and
independent capitalization of two companies based on RTI technology,
Nextreme Thermal Solutions and Sixis, Inc.
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Technical Attorney: Former Resident
Assistant and Sophomore Advisor Dean
Woodward is now an intellectual
property legal counsel for Raleigh,
N.C. based RTI International. He is
responsible for securing all patent,
copyright and trademark protection
for the company.
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Woodward previously served as staff attorney for Mobius Group, a financial
software company in Raleigh’s Research Triangle Park. He passed the North
Carolina bar exam in 1997 after attending business and law school at the
University of North Carolina. Woodward worked as an engineer after
graduating from Rose-Hulman, serving as project lead engineer for
Westinghouse from 1989-93, and obtaining his professional engineer’s
license. He has also combined his expertise in engineering and law in
internships during graduate school with EnSys Environmental Products and the
North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
Woodward served as Sophomore Advisor (SA) for Rose-Hulman’s Speed residence
hall in 1986-87 and Resident Assistant (RA) for Speed Hall in 1987-88 and
Baur-Sames-Bogart residence hall in 1988-89.
“As a member of the residence life staff, I gained confidence in building
rapport with others, even those with whom I might not always agree, yet
being able to hold them accountable to a common set of standards,” Woodward
said. “Being an SA or an RA means being able to support the students in a
difficult academic environment and help all of them stay within the lines of
acceptable behavior. It was both demanding and rewarding, and those skills
are among the most valuable I've ever experienced.
“Being an SA and RA helped me achieve a level of maturity that has served me
well in my career. Like many people, I have had some career setbacks, but I
have been able to overcome them in large part by having that maturity and a
strong network of colleagues and mentors. I think being an SA and an RA
helped me to naturally build those networking skills,” he said.
Woodward lives in the Raleigh area with his wife, Vanessa, another chemical
engineer, and they raise two sets of twins, eight-year-olds Julianne and
Dylan, and three-year-olds Kelsey and Connor.
Lucas served as Rose-Hulman's vice president of student affairs and dean of
students from 1976 to 2000.
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