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NSF Appoints Science Policy Scholar as Head of Social Sciences Directorate

MAR 05, 2024
Kaye Husbands Fealing previously was the inaugural director of NSF’s Science of Science and Innovation Policy program.
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Kaye Husbands Fealing

Kaye Husbands Fealing

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The National Science Foundation has selected science policy expert Kaye Husbands Fealing to lead the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

Husbands Fealing is the dean of Georgia Tech’s College of Liberal Arts and formerly chaired its School of Public Policy. She holds a doctorate in economics from Harvard University and a bachelor’s in mathematics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Husbands Fealing has previously worked with NSF in multiple capacities, including as inaugural program director for the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program and chair of the Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering. Her appointment, announced Feb. 29, will begin April 22.

This news brief originally appeared in FYI’s newsletter for the week of March 4.

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