Smith named MSU’s ACI director

STARKVILLE, Miss. – Professor (Dr.) Dennis Smith Jr. has been named director of Mississippi State University’s Marvin B. Dow Advanced Composites Institute (ACI), which is located at the Raspet Flight Research Laboratory. After a competitive selection process by Boeing, the ACI was created at MSU with the donation of a revolutionary stitched composite process and equipment developed at NASA. Smith will continue to serve as head of the chemistry department. (Source: Mississippi State University 03/14/18) Smith received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Florida in 1992. Among his broad interests are science and technology leadership, technology transfer, entrepreneurship, and chemistry/materials research.