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News Release
April 30, 2007
Micron CEO Appleton to Receive Honorary Ph.D. from BSU
Steve Appleton, CEO of Micron Technology, based in Boise, Idaho, will be
presented with an honorary doctorate at Boise State University’s Spring
Commencement ceremony on May 12. Appleton will receive only the fifth honorary
doctorate awarded by the university.
Appleton earned a BBA in management from Boise State in 1982. He attended Boise
State on a tennis scholarship, serving as captain his senior year and winning
the Big Sky doubles championship. He began his career with Micron as a
production operator on the night shift in the early ’80s. In 1989, he was named
vice president of operations, moving up to president and COO in 1992, and
chairman, president and CEO in 1994. At the age of 34, Appleton was one of the
youngest CEOs listed in Fortune 500.
Appleton was previously honored with Boise State’s Silver Medallion Award in
2001, the highest recognition of service to the university. The university’s
state-of-the-art Appleton Tennis Complex is named in his honor.
Micron is one of the world’s largest companies focused on memory, storage and
imaging semiconductor products—from DRAM to NAND Flash to CMOS image sensors.
Micron’s leading-edge semiconductor products are designed to add differentiated
value to the mobile, computing, server, automotive, networking, security,
industrial, consumer and medical applications its customers develop.
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Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208)
426-3275, kcraven@boisestate.edu
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