Rita Colwell
Rita Colwell
Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
May 1961, Ph.D (Oceanography), University of Washington
Experience
| Jan 1991 | President, the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (until March, 1998) |
| Aug 1998 | 11th Director, United States National Science Foundation (NSF) (until March, 2004) |
| 2004 | Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland, College Park (-present) |
| 2004 | Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (-present) |
Service
| 1984 | Member, the National Science Board (until 1990) |
| 1984 | President, American Society for Microbiology (until 1985) |
| 1995 | President, American Association for the Advancement of Science (until 1996) |
| Aug 1998 | Co-chair of the Committee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council (until March, 2004) |
| 1998 | Director, National Science Foundation (until 2004) |
| 2004 | Chairman and Senior Vice-President, Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc. (until 2006) |
| 2004 | Chairman, Science Advisory Board, Governor of Maryland (until 2008) |
| 2005 | Member, Board of Trustees, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (until 2014) |
| 2006 | Senior Advisor and Chairman Emeritus, Canon, U.S. Life Sciences, Inc. (-present) |
| 2006 | Member, International Advisory Committee, Japan Science and Technology Agency (-present) |
| 2006 | Member, President’s Council, University of Tokyo (-present) |
| 2007 | Member, Board of Trustees, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University (-present) |
| Jan 2008 | President, the American Institute of Biological Sciences (until December, 2008) |
| Nov 2011 | Member, Board of Governors, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation (-present) |
| 2012 | Chair, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, NAS (until 2014) |
| 2013 | President, Rosalind Franklin Society (-present) |
Awards
| May 1985 | Fisher Award of the American Society for Microbiology |
| 1990 | Gold Medal Award of the International Institute of Biotechnology Canterbury, england |
| 1992 | Triennial National Scholar Award, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi |
| 2001 | American Association of University Women 2001 Achievement Award |
| 2006 | The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, Japan |
| 2007 | 2006 National Medal of Science, U.S.A. |
| 2013 | William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, Sigma XI |
| 2014 | Prize Medal, Society for General Microbiology |
| 2017 | Vannevar Bush Award |
