NSF - OLPA - PR 04-20: RITA COLWELL TO LEAVE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
After five and a half years of outstanding service in what must be a very difficult and demanding job, Rita Colwell's departure from the top job at the National Science Foundation can not be a surprise.
The event does provide an opportunity to praise and thank her. Dr. Colwell has been a champion of science and the application of scientific knowledge to development in the United States and abroad for many years. Her fundamental research on cholera gave her an understanding of poverty and poor countries that is very rare in the United States, and much rarer still in the higher levels of government. Hers is a unique ability to understand the concept of knowledge for development, and to bring that knowledge to effective policy making and administration.
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
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