Dr. Mark F. Hurwitz graduated from Northwestern University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and then worked as an engineer at Xerox Corporation while earning an MS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Rochester. He earned a PhD at Cornell University in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics during an extensive R&D career in the filtration and separations industry at Pall Corporation, where he was inventor of 12 US patents with multiple foreign cognates. Returning to Cornell University, he was an Adjunct Professor in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, before moving to administration and becoming the Chief Research Compliance Officer.