{"id":11979,"date":"2024-02-05T15:10:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T20:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11979"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:50:53","slug":"jozef-straus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/jozef-straus\/","title":{"rendered":"Jozef Straus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Jozef Straus\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/output-onlinepngtools-3-160x211.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/output-onlinepngtools-3-160x211.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/output-onlinepngtools-3.png 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jozef Straus was awarded the degree of <span class=\"fontstyle0\">Doctor of Science,&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">honoris&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle2\">causa<\/span> at the 9.30 a.m. ceremony on Friday, June 7, \u201cin recognition of <span class=\"fontstyle0\">his contributions in the nuclear physics and in the field of mechanical engineering<\/span>\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jozef Straus was born in Eastern Slovakia in 1946 and as an undergraduate studied nuclear physics at the Czech Technical University. In 1968, he received a scholarship from University of Alberta (Edmonton) to continue his studies in physics, and went on to receive a Ph.D. (measurement of changes in magnetic fields) in 1974. That year, Straus accepted an offer from Bell Northern Research in Ottawa to do post-doctoral work in fiber optics and worked his way up to a managerial position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>August 2003, Straus retired as CEO of JDS Uniphase, remaining a board member with the title founder emeritus. He resigned as board member July, 2004, but was an occasional adviser to the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jozef Straus has numerous patents, publications, and other honours to his credit, notably the 2004 NRC\/CATA Alliance Innovation &amp; Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award as well as the 2001 Engineering Management Award from the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tjab6Jn5xis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Jozef Straus<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jozef Straus was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science,&nbsp;honoris&nbsp;causa at the 9.30 a.m. ceremony on Friday, June 7, \u201cin recognition of his contributions in the nuclear physics and in the field of mechanical engineering\u201d. Jozef Straus was born in Eastern Slovakia in 1946 and as an undergraduate studied nuclear physics at the Czech Technical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-11979","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13533,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11979\/revisions\/13533"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}