National Science Foundation Personnel Announcement
NSF PA 97-1 - August 12, 1997
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NSF Names New Acting Head of Polar Programs
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named John B. Hunt as acting
director of the Office of Polar Programs (OPP). He will assume
his new position on September 8, 1997.
Hunt currently serves as acting assistant director for mathematical
and physical sciences (MPS) at NSF. He has held positions of increasing
responsibility within MPS as program director, division executive
officer, acting division director, and directorate executive officer.
As a result, he has considerable experience managing large, complex
programs. Before coming to NSF's chemistry division in 1983, Hunt
was a professor of chemistry at Catholic University, where he
had served as a faculty member since 1962. He received his Ph.D.
in inorganic chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1962.
Among other past professional experience, Hunt served on the Board
of Directors of the Marine Science Consortium at Wallops Island,
Virginia for seven years and taught courses in chemical oceanography
there. He also taught chemistry for two years at the U.S. Naval
Academy.
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