|
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 |
|
|