Susan Marqusee, a biophysical chemist and campus professor of molecular cell biology and chemistry, will lead the Directorate for Biological Sciences, or BIO, of the National Science Foundation, or NSF.
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Jean Paul Allain, head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering at Penn State, has been appointed associate director for fusion energy sciences within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Over a two-year term, Allain will serve in a senior executive role to lead the planning, development and administration of research programs in fusion energy science.
At the very pinnacle of the modern Progressive program to make government competent stands the ideal of a professionalized, career civil service. Since the turn of the 20th century, Progressives have sought a system that could effectively select, train, reward, and guard from partisan influence the neutral scientific experts they believe are required to staff the national government and run the administrative state. The U.S. merit system, initiated by the Pendleton Act of 1883