Officers and Board Members

Robert G. Jahn, Chairman of the Board of ICRL, has been director of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory since its establishment in 1979. An applied physicist and aerospace engineer, for 15 years he was Dean of the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has presided over major research programs in advanced aerospace propulsion systems in cooperation with NASA and the U.S. Air Force, for which he was awarded a Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Electric Propulsion. Author of two major textbooks and several hundred publications in various technical fields, he is a recipient of the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award of the American Association of Engineering Education, a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Vice President of the Society for Scientific Exploration, and for sixteen years was a Director of the Hercules Corporation. In 2006 he received the Edgar Mitchell Award for Noetic Leadership.

Brenda J. Dunne, President and Treasurer of ICRL, was Laboratory Manager of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory from its inception in 1979 until its closing in 2007. Although she holds a Masters degree in developmental psychology from the University of Chicago, her deeper interests are in the humanities, the history and philosophy of religion, and cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of consciousness that incorporate metaphysical as well as scientific traditions. She also serves as Education Officer of the Society for Scientific Exploration.

Barbara L. Valocore, Secretary of ICRL, is President and founder of the Lifebridge Foundation, Inc., a small private foundation in New York City that is associated with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations. Lifebridge's purpose is to promote the concept of the interconnectedness of all life and one humanity. This is accomplished through the support of research in frontier areas of study, carried out in an atmosphere of open inquiry, free of prejudice and predetermined or anticipated results, and where taking risks can lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of consciousness.

William S. Gaither was educated as a civil engineer and has spent much of his business life building ports, harbors and underwater structures. He was the founding Dean of the Graduate College of Marine Studies at the University of Delaware and the President of Drexel University in Philadelphia. He has served on the boards of the Roy F. Weston Company, a full-service environmental consulting firm; the Philadelphia Electric Company; and the Mutual Assurance Company, the second oldest property and casualty company in the United States. He has a long-standing interest in environmental issues as well as the quantification of anomalous phenomena.

Richard M. Adams holds a BA degree in history from Yale University, attended the University of Chicago School of Law, and received a JD degree from the University of Michigan School of Law. He served in the CIA and as a city attorney in a small community in Michigan before moving to California, where he practiced law, specializing in real estate finance, urban renewal and federally assisted housing matters. In the 1970's he redirected his energies from law to business through the formation of multiple companies and partnerships which developed affordable market rate housing throughout the San Francisco Bay area, and in the last 15 years he has focused on asset management. He has served on the Board of Trustees and as an officer of several non-profit organizations, including the Saybrook Graduate School, and various organizations in the housing field. His lifetime interest in philosophy has led him to the belief that anomalous phenomena offer a window into the nature of reality, and he has pursued the study of anomalies both subjectively and objectively.

William H. Eddy (Board Member Emeritus) has been involved with a diversity of cultures and peoples for over 40 years, with special attention to how the perception of nature is unconsciously shaped by the habits of thinking in a particular language within a particular culture. For 22 years he was Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont, prior to which he held positions with The New York Zoological Society, The Conservation Foundation, The African Wildlife Foundation, and with the U.S. National Park Service. His consulting work with this latter agency took him on many trips to India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The U.S. Peace Corps also invited him to help develop programs to increase environmental awareness and understanding in a number of African, Central American and Caribbean countries.