MAJOR GENERAL JAMES B. KNAPP, USAF (Ret.), a West Point graduate and career Air Force officer, gained a place in history as the chief negotiator at the armistice talks between North Korea and South Korea in 1969. A highly decorated pilot and commander during World War II, he later served with the Strategic Air Command. General Knapp died soon after this deanship was endowed by his son in his honor.   J. BARCLAY KNAPP, A&S 1979, a University trustee, is an entrepreneur in the telecommunications field. Co-founder of Cellular Communications, founder of NLT, he is currently chairman of UPOC Networks. He has also formed a new firm, Charles Street Partners, to pursue financing and management opportunities in the telecommunications industry. Mr. Knapp is a founding member and a past national chair of the Krieger School’s Second Decade Society, an advocacy and fund-raising group. He also serves on the Krieger School Advisory Committee and is co-chair of the Knowledge for the World Campaign.

ADAM F. FALK, the James B. Knapp Dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, is a theoretical physicist and a member of the Johns Hopkins faculty since 1994. Dr. Falk was promoted to associate professor after only three years at Johns Hopkins and to full professor three years later, in 2000. In 2002, he was appointed the Krieger School's vice dean of faculty, a title that was changed to dean of faculty in 2004. He was instrumental in formulation of the School's strategic plan and in a comprehensive reform of appointment, promotion, and tenure policies in the Krieger School. Dr. Falk is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a winner of the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award. Early in his career, he won prestigious national young investigator awards from both the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. Graduating with highest distinction from the University of North Carolina in 1987, Dr. Falk earned his doctorate from Harvard University four years later. He held postdoctoral appointments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and the University of California, San Diego, before coming to Johns Hopkins.