The UW System's foremost academic officer, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Cora Marrett, will conclude her six-year service in December to become the assistant director of Education and Human Resources at the National Science Foundation, UW System President Kevin Reilly announced Friday.
NSF is an independent federal agency created to foster progress in sciences nationwide; the agency is ""the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities,"" according to its website.
Marrett will stay on at UW-Madison as a tenured sociology professor. With a higher education career featuring such positions as senior vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the first-ever assistant director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences for NSF, ""Dr. Marrett is uniquely qualified for this new opportunity,"" Reilly said Friday.
""I expect to draw upon my University of Wisconsin experiences in finding ways for U.S. citizens to access the science and engineering tools our nation needs for a healthy, prosperous and secure society,"" Marrett told UW System Communications.
