Engineering in the Navy: Contingencies to Construction

Date/Time:	Thursday, 19 Apr 2012 at 4:00 pm
Location:	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
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Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
Categories:	Diversity Lectures
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Rear Admiral Katherine Gregory will discuss the U.S. Navy's construction, engineering and humanitarian efforts in Japan after the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. Rear Admiral Gregory is the commander of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific and Pacific Fleet Civil Engineer. She is the first female flag officer in the United States Navy Civil Engineer Corps. Jellinger Lecture Series

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In 2010 Rear Admiral Gregory assumed command of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific, encompassing 4,000 military and civilian men and women stationed in Hawaii, Guam and Japan.

Her thirty-year military career has included service with the Naval Construction Force (Seabees), including deployments to Iraq and Haiti; the construction of a new support base and hospital in Naples, Italy; shore facility environmental compliance in San Francisco; and service as a Naval Air Station public works officer in Adak, Alaska.

She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and holds graduate degrees from the University of Southern California and George Washington University. She completed the Senior Executive Program at the London School of Business.

Rear Admiral Gregory is a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia, a qualified military parachutist and a Seabee combat war officer.