Paul M. Maughan, a 1959 WSU graduate in mechanical engineering, is an authority in satellite remote sensing and multispectral information for natural resources and environmental applications. A pioneer in earth observations and Global Positioning Systems (GPS), he was a founding partner of Space Development Services in 1984 and of Halcyon Inc. in 1992, both in Washington, D.C. He also was project manager for COMSAT and a consultant to NASA’s
David W. Maughan, 1964 graduate in physics, has been a research professor at the
Since 1977, W. Lowell Maughan, M.D., a 1966 graduate in zoology, has held 11 appointments at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he is a professor of medicine and biomedical engineering. He currently is associate chief of cardiology at
The Maughans were reared and educated in
After leaving WSU, Paul Maughan completed a bachelor’s degree in meteorology at
For more than 35 years, he contributed to many aspects of the use of remote sensing from space. For example, he participated in the design and development of satellite and information systems employing such convergent technologies as Geographic Information Systems and GPS in the technical analyses of spatial data, including earth-looking imagery from domestic and international weather and land satellite systems.
In one contract for NASA, he provided technical and administrative oversight for a project to monitor potato conditions and production on a 25,000-acre farm in
The common thread in his career has been his ability to synthesize technical, market, organizational and financial factors by using advanced information systems tools to solve resource, environmental and informational systems problems.
David Maughan’s major research interest is the cellular and molecular physiology of striated muscle, functional genomics and proteomics. He is currently involved in six major projects with grants totaling more than $4 million [three others are pending for $2.25 million] for investigations critical to human health, including the molecular basis of diabetic cardiomyopathy. He has been awarded more than 20 grants for research from such agencies as the Washington State Heart Association, the Vermont Heart Association, the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research and the National Institutes of Health Muscular Dystrophy Association.
He received a doctorate in physiology and biophysics from the University of Washington in 1971, and conducted postgraduate research in physiology at the University of Bern in Switzerland from 1971-74. He has lectured and served as a consultant and visiting scholar in
He has 65 articles in medical journals, 19 published books and book sections, 90 published abstracts and two video productions –“The Cardiac Cycle: Clinical Physiology of the Normal Heart,” and “Pressure-Volume Relationships of the Heart.” He has served on the National Board of Medical Examiners and on the Veterans Administration Merit Review Board for Cardiovascular Studies.
Two of three sisters are also WSU alumni–Sally Kilpatrick, a 1959 graduate in education of Anacortes, and Judy Busch, a 1969 graduate in education of
Their father’s career at WSU was cut short. He was hired in 1946, but died in the crash of a private plane at
onths, while maintaining a full teaching and administrative schedule at WSU from 1948 until retiring in 1973.