Sentences with phrase «nsf acting director»

The agreement was signed separately in three different places: On August 25, by Catherine Cesarsky (ESO Director General) in Garching, Germany; on September 8, by Arden L. Bement (NSF Acting Director) in Washington D.C.; and on September 14, by Yoshiro Shimura (NINS President) in Tokyo.

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«We have worked very hard to help bring Arecibo to a state where we still have cutting - edge research there, but with NSF not having to make the same investment that we've made historically,» says James Ulvestad, acting assistant director for the agency's mathematical - and physical - sciences directorate.

«Having the ability to keep this facility open is a win for everybody,» says Jim Ulvestad, acting assistant director for NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate in Alexandria, Virginia.

► Last Friday at ScienceInsider, Jeffrey Mervis noted the retirement of Cora Marrett, the longtime National Science Foundation (NSF) administrator, who currently is serving as deputy director and who has twice served as acting director.

At the National Science Foundation (NSF), the shutdown forced the cancellation of 98 review panels involving 811 scientists, acting NSF Director Cora Marrett told reporters during a teleconference today.

Arvizu explained that he and acting NSF Director Cora Marrett did meet in September with Bucshon and Representative Lamar Smith (R - TX), who leads the full committee.

Although details of NSF's spending plan for 2010 will not be available until next week's meeting of the National Science Board, acting NSF Deputy Director Cora Marrett described some new initiatives during the briefing earlier.

Cora Marrett, deputy NSF director and acting director for 6 months before Suresh arrived, is expected to be named acting director once again while the president seeks a replacement.

Cora Marrett, who has been serving as acting director, will return to her temporary post as NSF deputy director while she awaits Senate approval to hold the position on a permanent basis.

At a 9 August meeting of NSF's oversight body, the National Science Board, NSF Director France Córdova said special hiring authority would allow NSF to keep top managers for longer than the 4 years allowed under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) that governs their service.

That tendency to safeguard funds is alive and well at NSF, says Richard Behnke, section head and acting division director for NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences.

• Also on ScienceInsider, Jeffrey Mervis writes about a memo from National Science Foundation (NSF) acting Director Cora Marrett that «outlines a series of steps that the $ 7 - billion - a-year agency will be taking to get back to business over the next several weeks.»

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