[Reblog]: NSF Director to Leave for Carnegie Mellon University

by Jeffrey Mervis on 5 February 2013, 3:00 PM

Subra Suresh

Credit: NSF

The director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that he is leaving the $7-billion agency to become president of Carnegie Mellon University.

Subra Suresh, an engineer and materials scientist, told NSF staff members that he would be departing at the end of March and taking up his post at the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, institution on 1 July. He will have served less than half of a 6-year term that began in October 2010…

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