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Arlington, VA-based National Science Foundation has promoted Amy Northcutt as Chief Information Officer.
About the Company
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" With an annual budget of more than $8 billion, NSF is the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America`s colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing. NSF awards about 11,000 new awards per year, with an average duration of three years -- to fund specific research proposals that have been judged the most promising by a rigorous and objective merit-review system. In the past few decades, NSF-funded researchers have won more than 200 Nobel Prizes as well as other honors too numerous to list. NSF funds equipment that is needed by scientists and engineers but is often too expensive for any one group or researcher to afford. Another essential element in NSF`s mission is support for science and engineering education, from pre-K through graduate school and beyond.
About the Person
Amy Northcutt is Acting Director of the Office of Information and Resource Management and Acting Chief Information Officer of the National Science Foundation. Prior to these roles, she served as the Foundation's Deputy General Counsel beginning in 2001. From 1996 - 2001, Ms. Northcutt served as Vice President for Administration of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. Previously, she served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission. From 1987 - 1991, Ms. Northcutt was an associate at the Oklahoma City law firm of Crowe and Dunlevy. She is a member of the Oklahoma Bar. Ms. Northcutt holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston College, an A.M.R.S. from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. from Smith College.
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