The Board is composed of 24 part-time members, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. They are selected on the basis of their eminence in basic, medical, or social sciences, engineering, agriculture, education, research management or public affairs. The NSF Director serves on the Board, ex officio.

Chairman and Vice Chairman

		Dr. Steven Beering Chairman, National Science Board President Emeritus Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Biography
		Dr. Patricia D. Galloway Vice Chairman, National Science Board Chief Executive Officer The Nielsen-Wurster Group, Inc. Seattle, Washington Biography

Members Alphabetically

		Dr. Mark R. Abbott Dean and Professor College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon Biography
		Dr. Dan E. Arvizu Director and Chief Executive National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Golden, Colorado Biography
		Dr. Camilla P. Benbow Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development Peabody College of Education and Human Development Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee Biography
		Dr. John T. Bruer President The James S. McDonnell Foundation Saint Louis, Missouri Biography
		Dr. G. Wayne Clough Secretary Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. Biography
		Dr. Kelvin K. Droegemeier Associate Vice President for Research Regents’ Professor of Meteorology and Weathernews Chair University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma Biography
		Dr. José-Marie Griffiths Dean School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina Biography
		Dr. Louis J. Lanzerotti Distinguished Research Professor of Physics Center for Solar Terrestrial Research Department of Physics New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, New Jersey Biography
		Dr. Alan I. Leshner Chief Executive Officer Executive Publisher, Science American Association for the Advancement of Science Washington, District of Columbia Biography
		Mr. Arthur K. Reilly Senior Director Strategic Technology Policy Cisco Systems, Inc. Ocean, New Jersey Biography
		Dr. Jon C. Strauss President Emeritus Harvey Mudd College Claremont, California Biography
		Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan Director Battelle Center for Mathematics and Science Education Policy John Glenn School of Public Affairs Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio Biography
		Dr. Thomas N. Taylor Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor   Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Curator of Paleobotany in the Natural History Museum and   Biodiversity Research Center The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Biography
		Dr. Richard F. Thompson Keck Professor of Psychology and Biological Sciences University of Southern California Los Angeles, California Biography

Member ex officio
Director National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA

Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr. Director National Science Foundation Arlington, VA Biography

Board Consultants

		Dr. Barry C. Barish Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Physics Emeritus Director, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory   (LIGO) California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California Biography
		Dr. Ray Bowen President Emeritus Texas A&M University College Station, Texas Biography
		Dr. Kenneth M. Ford Director and Chief Executive Officer Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Pensacola, Florida Biography
		Dr. Daniel E. Hastings Dean for Undergraduate Education Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts Biography
		Dr. Karl Hess Swanlund Chair Advanced Study Professor Emeritus University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois Biography
		Dr. Elizabeth Hoffman Executive Vice President and Provost Iowa State University Ames, Iowa Biography
		Dr. Douglas D. Randall Professor and Thomas Jefferson Fellow University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri Biography
		Dr. Jo Anne Vasquez Vice President and Program Director, Arizona Transition Years Teacher & Curriculum Initiatives Helios Education Foundation Phoenix, Arizona Biography