Effective the first of this month, Daniel S. Goldin takes his post as Boston University’s ninth president and succeeds John Silber. NASA’s administrator from April 1992 to November 2001, Goldin most recently was a visiting fellow at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California.
The National Institutes of Health has appointed Jeremy Berg as director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) in Bethesda, Maryland, effective this month. For the past 13 years, Berg directed the department of biophysics and biophysical chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
On 2 September, astrophysicist and astronaut John Mace Grunsfeld took over the reins of the NASA science program as chief scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. A veteran of four space shuttle flights, including two missions to service the Hubble Space Telescope, Grunsfeld says that he is joining the agency “at a time when the space...
