Olympic career

• 1920 Olympic Games, Antwerp, Belgium
• 1922 Big 10 Conference Medal, for best combined scholastic and athletic record

Education

• 1922 B.S., with honors, Purdue University
  Purdue University
  Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
  
  
• 1926 Ph.D., University of Michigan
  University of Michigan
  The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
  
  
• 1946 Honorary Doctor of Engineering, Purdue University
  Purdue University
  Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
  
  
• 1957 Honorary Doctor of Engineering, University of Michigan
  University of Michigan
  The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
  
  
• 1958 Honorary Doctor of Laws, Alfred University
  Alfred University
  Alfred University is a small, comprehensive university in the Village of Alfred in Western New York, USA, an hour and a half south of Rochester and two hours southeast of Buffalo. Alfred has an undergraduate population of around 2,000, and approximately 300 graduate students...
  
  
• 1960 Honorary Doctor of Science, Thiel College
  Thiel College
  Thiel College is a private, liberal arts, sciences and professional studies college related to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Thiel provides affordable high-quality college experience with dedicated faculty, numerous leadership opportunities and a wide variety of student activities and...
  
  
• 1963 Degree Honoris Causa, University National de Asuncion

Academic career

• 1922-1924 Teacher of Mathematics, Shattuck School, Minnesota
  Minnesota
  Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
  
  
• 1924-1925 Research Chemist with U.S. Steel Corporation
• 1926-1931 Physical Chemist with U.S. Bureau of Mines
• 1931-1941 Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Yale University
  Yale University
  Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
  
  
• 1941-1942 Technical aide at the National Defense Research Committee
• 1943-1946 Director of Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Research Laboratory at Buffalo, New York
  Buffalo, New York
  Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
  
  
• 1946-1954 Director and Executive Vice President of Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory
• 1954-1962 Chancellor, University of Buffalo
• 1962-1966 President, State University of New York at Buffalo
• 1962-1966 President, Western New York Nuclear Research
• 1966-1969 President Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo

Government career

• 1952-1953 Chairman, Guided Missile Commission, Research and Development Board
• 1954-1957 Chairman, U.S. Department of Defense Advisory Panel on Aeronautics
• 1954-1969 Member, U.S. Army Science Advisory Panel
• 1955-1957 Member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
• 1955-1957 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Development
• 1956-1957 Chairman, Air Navigation Development Board
• 1957-1969 Member of the Defense Science Board
• 1958-1969 Member of the Naval Research Advisory Committee
• 1961-1965 Chairman of the Defense Science Board
• 1961-1969 Chairman, New York Advisory Council, Industrial Research and Development
• 1968-1969 Vice-Chairman, National Research Council

Publications

• 1932 America’s Tomorrow
• 1935 The Unfinished Business of Science
• 1936 The Next Hundred Years
• 1937 Man, Bread and Destiny
• 1937 Technological Trends and National Policy (section on metallurgy)
• 1939 The Storehouse of Civilization
• 1940 The Individual and the World
• 1940 Excerpts from Our Intellectual World Sections 9-13, Division II of The Individual and the World
• 1948 Research in Industry
• 1957 Sputnik. Why did the US lose the race? Critics speak up, Life Magazine, October 21, 1957
• 1966 The Engineer

External links

• Clifford C. Furnas Collection, State University of New York at Buffalo
• Papers of Clifford C. Furnas, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library