Marye Ann Fox, Ph.D.

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Dr. Marye Anne Fox is the seventh Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego. Previously, Fox was chancellor and distinguished university professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University, a post she held since 1998. Before her appointment as Chancellor at NC State, Dr. Fox was the M. June and J. Vergil Waggoner Regents Chair in Chemistry and Vice President for Research at the University of Texas at Austin. As Vice President for Research, she was responsible for administrative support for research both on and off the campus at Austin. In 1996-97, this research enterprise included $246 million in sponsored research which extended over a broad range of university departments and interdisciplinary units. She received her BS from Notre Dame College and a PhD degree from Dartmouth College, both in Chemistry. After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Maryland, she joined the University of Texas at Austin in 1976. Professor Fox has taught courses in Chemistry ranging from lower division to advanced graduate levels. The University of Texas Magazine named her "Best of University of Texas Natural Science Faculty." In 1986, she won the Teaching Excellence Award in her college. In 1996, she won Sigma Xi's Monie A. Ferst Award in recognition of outstanding mentoring of graduate students. She is currently President of the Association for Women in Science. She has served as co-chair of a National Science Foundation/National Science Board Taskforce on Graduate Education and has served on Texas, Louisiana, and National Research Council advisory panels for systemic improvement of K-12 science and mathematics education and teacher training. She now chairs the national Research Council Committee on Undergraduate Science Education. She has published extensively in organic photochemistry and electrochemistry. She has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has received the Garvan Award and the Southwest Regional Award and has been named Arthur C. Cope Scholar by the American Chemical Society. She has received international research awards in Spain, Holland, Germany, and Russia and was cited by Esquire Magazine as "Best of the New Generation." She has been a Sloan Research Fellow and a Dreyfus Teacher Scholar and was named by the New York Academy of Sciences in 1999 as an Outstanding Woman in Science. She currently serves on the Committee on Science Engineering and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. She is also President Elect of Sigma Xi-The Scientific Research Society. She is on the boards of W.R. Grace, Inc. and the Stanford Research Institute, and on scientific advisory boards for the Welch, Dreyfus, and Packard Foundations. In 1994-96 she served as Vice Chairman of the National Science Board and chaired its Committee on Programs and Plans from 1991-94. She served on the Texas Governor's Science and Technology Council as an advisor to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. She chaired the Chemistry Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and advises its Center for Science, Technology, and the Congress. She has served as a member of the Council, and the Executive Committee of the Council, of the National Academy of Sciences. She chairs the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology, and Science at NC State University and serves on the Board of Trustees (Ex Officio) for the National Institute of Statistical Science.