Inducted
2013
Degrees
- B.A., Physics, Hofstra College, 1958
- Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1966
Honorary Member — Belfast, Maine
A native of Long Island, New York, G. Lansing Blackshaw earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Hofstra College in 1958. Following graduation, he worked for Atomics International, where he supervised a water boiler reactor facility that conducted neutron physics experiments on sub-critical core assemblies to measure criticality parameters for a wide variety of nuclear reactor concepts being considered at the time.
He subsequently enrolled in North Carolina State University, where he completed his doctorate in nuclear engineering in 1966, and was awarded the Phi Kappa Phi Award for having the outstanding doctoral dissertation at the university. In 1965, Blackshaw joined West Virginia University’s Department of Chemical Engineering as a faculty member in the then-in-existence graduate program in nuclear engineering. His interests focused on reactor and neutron physics, and fostering relationships with arts and sciences faculty to develop mathematics and sciences instruction relevant for engineering students. When the nuclear engineering program was phased out in the early 1970s, Blackshaw remained with the Department, and in 1979 was appointed assistant dean of engineering, and later associate dean for academic affairs.
Blackshaw became dean of science and engineering at Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1983, and in 1989, assumed a similar position at the University of Bridgeport, where he later served as provost and vice president for academic affairs. He was named executive vice president and provost at New York Chiropractic College in 1995, and since retiring from that position has remained active in doctoral-level conservative healthcare education through service on accrediting agency boards and site visitation teams.
His volunteer activities have encompassed board and fund raising responsibilities associated with United Way, library, musical performing arts, church and athletic organizations. He presently is a board member of the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Blackshaw and his wife, Molly, married since 1955, reside in Belfast, Maine.