Subra Suresh, dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, has
been nominated by President Obama to serve as the next director of
the National Science Foundation, three months after his selection
was rumored. If confirmed by the Senate, he would succeed Arden L.
Bement Jr., who returned
this month to Purdue University after five years heading the NSF,
which uses an annual budget of nearly $7-billion to support basic
research at American colleges and universities.
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