Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.
Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.
Create a free The EDU Ledger account to continue reading
Lewis Johnson
Nov 11, 2026
Lewis Johnson is the new chief research officer at the University of the District of Columbia. Dr. Johnson was associate provost for strategic initiatives and a professor of physics at Florida A&M University. His current research focuses on Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), specifically investigating fundamental laser-matter interactions and their applications in environmental and hazardous-material detection. Before his tenure at FAMU, Dr. Johnson was a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Dr. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from North Carolina State University and a Ph.D. from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.