NSF and the National Science Board, the 24-member policy body of NSF, presented their awards at the annual NSB awards dinner held this past May in Washington, DC.
The board’s Vannevar Bush Award went this year to Mary L. Good, dean of the Donaghey College of Information Science and Systems Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. The NSB acknowledged her “life-long contributions to science, engineering, and technology, and … her leadership throughout her multi-faceted career.” That career has involved stints in academia, private industry, and government.
Early on, Good was a chemistry professor at both Louisiana State University and the University of New Orleans. She later became the Boyd Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at LSU before joining the private sector. She was senior vice president of technology with Allied Signal Inc in New Jersey, was subsequently appointed as Under Secretary, Technology Administration, at the US...
