Things New and Strange: A Southerner’s Journey Through the Smithsonian Collections. Join Dr. Wayne Clough at The Newnan Carnegie Library for an Author Talk and book signing.

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Dr. Wayne Clough served as the 10th President of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1994 to 2008 and as the 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 2008 to 2014. Join Dr. Clough as he discussed his fascinating book Things New and Strange: A Southerners Journey of Discovery Through the Smithsonian Collections. Copies will be available for purchase and signing, along with his latest work Reimagining the Technological University.     

During Clough’s tenure as president, Georgia Tech’s national rankings rose into the top 10 among public universities. The G. Wayne Clough Georgia Tech Promise Scholarship was created, allowing financially disadvantaged students to graduate without accruing debt.  Clough also oversaw the preparations for the 1996 Centennial Olympics and the doubling of the building capacity of the campus.  This included the construction of Technology Square and the creation of the biotechnology and molecular science complex, which allowed the formation of the Emory-Georgia Tech Biomedical program.     

As Secretary of the Smithsonian he also presided over more than a billion dollars in renovations and new construction, including the new National Museum of African American History and Culture.     

Clough, a native of Douglas, Georgia, received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Georgia Tech in civil engineering and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Clough taught at Duke University, Stanford University and Virginia Tech, where he served as Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering. He also served as Provost and Vice President of the University of Washington.