James Johnson Duderstadt was born on December 5, 1942, in
Fort Madison, Iowa, and was raised in
Carrollton, Missouri. He received a
B.A. from
Yale University in 1964, and an
M.S. in 1965 and a
PhD in 1968 from
California Institute of Technology. At Caltech, he studied under nuclear physicist
Noel Corngold. In 1972, he worked for the
NASA Lewis Research Center, then for the
U.S. Army Missile Command from 1973 to 1975, and eventually for the
Argonne National Laboratory from 1975 to 1979. He and his wife, Anne Lock-Duderstadt, lived in the university's
President's House. He served on the boards of
National Science Foundation, the Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee of the
Department of Energy, the
Big Ten Athletic Conference, the
University of Michigan Hospitals,
Unisys,
CMS Energy, and the
Glion Colloquium, among others. The main library on the University of Michigan's
North Campus is named
The James and Anne Duderstadt Center (commonly referred as "The Dude") in honor of Duderstadt and his wife, Anne ("Ma Dude"). Formerly called the Media Union, it houses the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library and also contains computer clusters, audio and video editing laboratories, galleries, and studios, as well as usability and various digital media laboratories, including virtual reality.
The Millennium Project, which focuses on the future of the university learning environment and is where Duderstadt maintained an appointment as an emeritus professor, is also housed in the Duderstadt Center. Duderstadt died on August 21, 2024, at the age of 81. ==Bibliography==