Nomination of Rita R. Colwell To Be a Member of the National Science Board

The President today announced his intention to nominate Rita R. Colwell to be a member of the National Science Board, National Science Foundation, for a term expiring May 10, 1990. She would succeed Ernestine Friedl.

Mrs. Colwell is currently vice president of academic affairs and professor of marine microbiology at the University of Maryland. She has served as a consultant to the Environmental Protection Agency and as a consultant to the Advisory Committee on Science Education and Biology and Oceanography, National Science Foundation (1970-1975).

Mrs. Colwell graduated from Purdue University (B.S., 1956; M.S., 1958) and the University of Washington (Ph.D., 1961). She is married, has two children, and resides in Bethesda, MD. She was born November 23, 1934, in Beverly, MA.