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Lisa Zurk
September 28, 2017
Lisa M. Zurk named executive director of UW Applied Physics Laboratory
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Lisa Zurk, a UW aluma in electrical engineering, professor at Portland State University and program manager at DARPA, will become the eighth director of the UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory.