Nature：Obama任命天体物理学家为NSF新主任

来源：科学网 2013-08-02 10:57

图为France Anne Cordova 来自：Prudue.edu 美国总统奥巴马7月31日宣布，提名天体物理学家France Anne Cordova出任美国国家科学基金会（NSF）主任。 Cordova于1947年出生于法国巴黎。1979年她从加州理工**获得物理学博士学位。2007年至2012年，她曾出任美国普渡**校长。

图为France Anne Cordova 来自：Prudue.edu

美国总统奥巴马7月31日宣布，提名天体物理学家France Anne Cordova出任美国国家科学基金会（NSF）主任。

Cordova于1947年出生于法国巴黎。1979年她从加州理工**获得物理学博士学位。2007年至2012年，她曾出任美国普渡**校长。

自2013年3月前任主任Subra Suresh离任以来，NSF一直由副主任Cora Marrett代为管理。NSF年预算高达70亿美元，机构使命是通过资助基础研究、改进科学教育、增进国际科学合作等办法促进美国科学的发展。（生物谷 Bioon.com）

原文标题为：美国国家科学基金会将迎来新主任

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Obama nominates astrophysicist to lead NSF

Astrophysicist France Anne Cordova has been tapped to head the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which has been run by an acting director since March 2013. President Barack Obama announced the pick on 31 July. If confirmed, Cordova would fill the gap left by Subra Suresh, who announced his resignation in February, after serving less than half of his six-year term leading the US$7 billion agency.

Cordova, who earned her doctorate from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, served as president of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, from 2007 to 2012. In 2010, she oversaw the creation of the Colombia-Purdue Institute for Scientific Research, which aims to foster scientific collaboration between the Colombia and the United States.

Earlier in her career, Cordova worked in the Earth and Space Sciences Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and went on to lead the department of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University in University Park. In September 1993, Cordova was named NASA’s first female chief scientist.

“She’s a very accomplished academic researcher,” says Umar Mohideen, chairman of the physics and astronomy department at the University of California, Riverside, where Cordova served as chancellor from 2002-2007. “She’s managed academia, and those are qualities that would make her a good choice.”

Cordova now begins the sometimes lengthy process of winning confirmation from the US Senate — normally an easy process for candidates to lead NSF. But her nomination comes at a time when Republican lawmakers in the Senate have used procedural tactics to slow consideration of Obama administration picks. EPA chief Gina McCarthy was confirmed on 18 July after a historic delay caused by political infighting, and Obama has struggled to fill several other top science positions.

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