Dr. Cora B. Marrett
Acting Director, National Science Foundation
View Dr. Marrett's presentation at: http://nia.ecsu.edu/ur/1011/100930spcgawards/marrett.mp4

Dr. Cora Marrett was appointed Acting Director of the National Science Foundation, effective June 1, 2010. She had been the Acting Deputy Director since January 18, 2009. Prior to that, Dr. Marrett was the Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources, a position she held from February 2007 until becoming acting deputy director. She led the NSF's mission to achieve excellence in U.S. science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education at all levels and in both formal and informal settings.
   Earlier, from 1992-1996, Marrett was NSF's assistant director fro Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. Prior to returning to NSF in 2007, Marrett served as the University of Wisconsin's senior vice president for academic affairs for six years. Before that, she served as senior vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst for four years.
  Marrett Hold a Bachelor of Arts from Virginia Union University, and Master of Arts and a doctorate from UW-Madison, all in Sociology. She received an honorary doctorate from Wake Forest University in 1996, and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1996.