President Obama announced on Wednesday his nomination of France A. Córdova, a former president of Purdue University, to serve as the new director of the National Science Foundation.
Ms. Córdova, an astrophysicist, is now chair of the Smithsonian Regents, the governing board of the Smithsonian Institution. She was appointed to that post in January, six months after ending a five-year term as Purdue’s president as she neared the mandatory retirement age of 65. Ms. Córdova turns 66 on Monday.
If confirmed by the Senate, Ms. Córdova would replace Cora B. Marrett, an NSF career official who has been serving as the agency’s acting director since March, when Subra Suresh left to become president of Carnegie Mellon University.
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