Professor Rustum Roy, Ph.D., was one of the world’s most foremost materials scientists. He had been elected to the five National Academies of Science/ Engineering of the most significant technological countries—the U.S., Russia, Japan, Sweden and India. He founded both the Materials Research Laboratory and the Science Technology and Society program at Penn State University, both of which became leaders in their fields. For the last 20 years he
worked at bringing together the many groups representing the world’s wisdom on the healing of the body, mind and spirit under the banner of the nonprofit Friends of Health. He died in August, 2010.