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Michael Marx, Associate Vice President for Brookhaven Affairs brings an almost 40 year history of collaboration with BNL and its scientists. He performed his MIT thesis research at BNL studying proton-antiproton annihilations, and then joined the BNL staff in 1975. At BNL he worked on rare K-decays, total cross section measurements (at FermiLab), and helped develop the detector for measurements of elastic scattering of neutrinos from electrons and protons. He joined the faculty at Stony Brook in 1980. With the help of one of the first Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator awards, he continued his strong collaborations with BNL scientists – on neutrinos, the development of the enormously successful D0 experiment at FermiLab led by Paul Grannis, and then development of the experimental program for the Superconducting SuperCollider. After the SSC Mike spent much of the next decade working full-time at BNL, first as Deputy to now-BNL Director Sam Aronson during the construction phase of the PHENIX experiment at RHIC, and then as Project Manager for the KOPIO experiment in the NSF funded RSVP project. One of the surviving legacies of RSVP is the MARIACHI cosmic ray educational outreach program which he developed with BNL’s Helio Takai, and he is now working to initiate a joint BNL-Stony Brook Center for Accelerator Science and Education.