In brief
AUG 01, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/1.2774110
Astrophysicist France A. Córdova, former chancellor of the University of California, Riverside, assumed a new post last month as the 11th president of Purdue University. Córdova had served at Riverside since 2002; prior to that post she was at UC Santa Barbara, where she had been vice chancellor for research and a professor of physics for six years. She was the youngest person to hold the position of NASA chief scientist, working from 1993 to 1996 on projects that included the Hubble Space Telescope . Purdue selected Córdova in May following a seven-month search for a successor to Martin C. Jischke, who retired in June.
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