NSF Announces New BIO Director

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced that Dr. Joanne Tornow will serve as the next Director of the Biological Sciences Directorate (BIO). Dr. Tornow has worked in program management, leadership, and strategic development roles at NSF for nearly two decades. Tornow has previously served as Senior Adviser for strategic planning in BIO, head of BIO’s Molecular and Cellular Biosciences division, Deputy Assistant Director for NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE), Acting head of SBE, and Head of NSF’s Office of Information and Resource Management. Prior to joining NSF, she was faculty at Portland State University and the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Tornow has been the acting BIO head since January 2018. She received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in human genetics from Yale University.      
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