Peg Kay

Peg Kay is President Emeritus of the Washington Academy of Sciences. She is currently acting as Executive Director of the Academy.
 
The Washington Academy of Sciences was incorporated in 1898 as an affiliation of eight Washington D.C. area scientific societies. The formation of the Academy culminated a decade of planning under the leadership of the Philosophical Society of Washington. The founders included Alexander Graham Bell and Samuel Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The purpose of the new Academy was to encourage the advancement of science and “to conduct, endow, or assist investigation in any department of science”. That purpose guided the Academy throughout its first 100 years and will continue to be its guide through the coming century.
 
From 1987 to 2011, when Peg retired, she was president of Vertech, Inc. a telecommunications consulting company. Earlier, she was Chief, Program Development for the Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology/National Bureau of Standards.
 
She has been the recipient of a number of awards. While at the Institute of Computer Sciences and Technology, she received the Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer and a U.S. Department of Commerce Science and Technology Fellowship; she earned the Broadcast Industry Silver Anniversary Broadcast Preceptor Award for work done when she was a research associate at the Cable Television Information Center/Urban Institute; she was a Fellow-in-Residence at the Office of Telecommunications Policy/Executive Office of the President.
 
Peg is the coauthor of a textbook on public management, Government Oversight and Evaluability Assessment, and is about to publish (2012) her first mystery novel which will be titled Me Tarzan, You Dead.