Walter Eugene Massey, is an educator, physicist and corporate executive, born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on April 5, 1938. He was elected Chairman of Bank of America Corporation on April 29, 2009, replacing Ken Lewis. Massey graduated from Morehouse College in 1958 with a BS degree in Mathematics and Physics, and also became a member of the Psi chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Massey went on to receive his PhD in Physics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1966.

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  • Walter Eugene Massey, is an educator, physicist and corporate executive, born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on April 5, 1938. He was elected Chairman of Bank of America Corporation on April 29, 2009, replacing Ken Lewis. Massey graduated from Morehouse College in 1958 with a BS degree in Mathematics and Physics, and also became a member of the Psi chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Massey went on to receive his PhD in Physics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1966. Massey also served as vice president for research and professor of physics at the University of Chicago, as director of the Argonne National Laboratory, dean of the College and professor of physics at Brown University, and as assistant professor of physics at the University of Illinois. He was the director of the National Science Foundation from 1991 to 1993, was the ninth president of Morehouse College from 1995 to 2007, and formerly the Senior Provost of the University of California System. Massey serves or has served as a board member to several American corporations, including Bank of America, BP Oil, Motorola, and McDonalds. In 2007, Massey was elected as chair of the board of the Salzburg Global Seminar, an international policy center based in Salzburg, Austria, with offices in Washington, DC. Massey, who joined the Seminar Board in 1995, succeeded Roy M. Huffington, as board chair. Massey also serves as a trustee of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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  • Walter Eugene Massey, is an educator, physicist and corporate executive, born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on April 5, 1938. He was elected Chairman of Bank of America Corporation on April 29, 2009, replacing Ken Lewis. Massey graduated from Morehouse College in 1958 with a BS degree in Mathematics and Physics, and also became a member of the Psi chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Massey went on to receive his PhD in Physics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1966.
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  • Walter E. Massey
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