September 3, 1998

PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES ANITA K. JONES, PAMELA A. FERGUSON AND ROBERT C. RICHARDSON TO SERVE AS MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD

                              THE WHITE HOUSE

                       Office of the Press Secretary
                        (Armagh, Northern Ireland)
      _______________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                         September 3, 1998

 PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES ANITA K. JONES, PAMELA A. FERGUSON AND ROBERT C.
                      RICHARDSON TO SERVE AS MEMBERS
                       OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD

     The President today announced his intent to nominate Anita K. Jones,
Pamela A. Ferguson and Robert C. Richardson to serve as Members of the
National Science Board.

     Dr. Anita K. Jones, of Charlottesville, Virginia, is currently a
University Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and
Applied Science at the University of Virginia.  In the Spring of 1997, she
returned to the University after serving as the Director of Defense
Research and Engineering at the Department of Defense.  Dr. Jones has
served on the Defense Science Board, the Air Force Scientific Advisory
Board, various panels for NASA, the National Research Council and the
National Science Foundation.   Dr. Jones received her A.B. from Rice
University, an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in
Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

          Dr. Pamela A. Ferguson, of Grinnell, Iowa, is currently a
Professor of Mathematics and formerly the President of Grinnell College in
Iowa.  She is a member of the American Mathematical Society and the
Advisory Committee to the Directorate for Education and Human Resources of
the National Science Foundation.  Dr. Ferguson received her B.A. from
Wellesley College, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

     Dr. Robert C. Richardson, of Ithaca, New York,  is currently a
Professor of Physics at Cornell University.  In 1996, he was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physics along with colleagues David Lee and Douglas
Osheroff.   From 1989 to 1992,  Dr. Richardson served as Chair of the
Physics Section of the National Academy of Sciences and from 1986 to 1988,
he served as Co-Chair of the National Science Foundation Panel on Large
Magnetic Fields.  Dr. Richardson received his B.S. and M.S. in physics from
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Duke
University.

     The National Science Board was established by the National Science
Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1863).  In accordance with
the Act, the Board establishes the policies of the National Science
Foundation within the framework of applicable policies set forth by the
President and Congress.  Members of the Board serve six year terms.

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