Maria Zuber elected as chair of the National Science Board
The following is adapted from a National Science Foundation press release. For the first time in the history of the National Science Foundation (NSF), women now hold three key leadership positions — director of the NSF, and chair and vice-chair of its governing body, the National Science Board (NSB). During its May meeting, the NSB elected Maria Zuber, vice president for research at MIT, as its board chair, and Diane Souvaine, vice provost for research at Tufts University, as its vice chair. Zuber and Souvaine replace Dan Arvizu and Kelvin Droegemeier, who stepped down from the Board after twelve years of service, the last four as chair and vice chair. Zuber’s research bridges planetary geophysics and the technology of space-based laser and radio systems, and she has published over 200 papers. She has held leadership roles associated with scientific experiments or instrumentation on nine NASA missions and remains involved with six of...