Rita R. Colwell

Born 1934

President, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 1991-1998. Director of the National Science Foundation, 1998 to present.

AAAS Presidential Address: Rita R. Colwell, "Global Climate and Infectious Disease: The Cholera Paradigm," Science (20 December 1996) 274:2025-2031.

AAAS offices held:

• Chair, Council Affairs, 1994 - 1995
• Chair, Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee, 1995 - 1996
• President, 1996
• Chair, Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, 1997 - 1998

AAAS awards and honors:

• William D. Carey Lecture, 2000.
  
  

Related Archives:

• Archives of the American Society for Microbiology
  http://www.asmusa.org/mbrsrc/archive/intro.htm