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OIA Staff
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Dr. W. Lance Haworth, Director
lhaworth@nsf.gov
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room 1270
Arlington, Virginia 22230
Phone: 703-292-8040
Fax: 703-292-9040 |
W. LANCE HAWORTH
Dr. W. Lance Haworth was appointed director of the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities in January, 2008.
In this position, Dr. Haworth works in partnership with NSF's six scientific directorates and other major offices to develop and promote a performance-based approach to the foundation's management of its investment portfolio. The job requires him to coordinate the foundation's traditional mission of funding transformative science while encouraging support for new initiatives set forth by NSF leadership. The Office of Integrative Activities manages several high-profile programs, including Science and Technology Centers, Major Research Instrumentation, and the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), which exists to strengthen research and education in science and engineering throughout the United States.
Prior to this assignment, Dr. Haworth led the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at NSF. He joined NSF's Division of Materials Research in 1984. He served as the first program director for Materials Research Groups, then for Materials Research Laboratories, and led planning and implementation for the Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers Program launched in 1994. He was executive officer for the Division of Materials Research from 1996-2006, and acting division director from 2006-2007.
Dr. Haworth was educated at Liverpool University, the University of Alberta, and Yale University. He was a postdoctoral research associate in metallurgy at the University of Illinois, and a faculty member in metallurgical engineering at Wayne State University from 1972-1985. He was a visiting scientist and then vice president with Central Solar Energy Research Corporation in Detroit, Mich., from 1977 to 1979. His research activities focused on fatigue damage mechanisms, structure-property relationships in materials and nondestructive evaluation.
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