William John Briscoe earned his Ph.D. in Experimental Nuclear Physics from The Catholic University of America in 1978. He is currently a professor in Physics department at GWU and the director of both the GW/JLab Data Analysis Center and the GW Center for Nuclear Studies. Briscoe is a Fellow of the American Physical Society “for his significant contributions to the understanding of pionic and electromagnetic interactions with nucleons and nuclei, fundamental symmetries such as time-reversal invariance and charge symmetry; and the design and construction of the JLab Tagged Photon Facility”. Professor Briscoe has 130 refereed journal articles and over 90 presentations and conference proceedings to his credit, many of these are invited presentations. His research is supported by NSF and DOE.