Assistant Director for the NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE) Co-lead with Jim Olds of NSF Neuroscience
In her role as head of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, Cook will be a key member of the National Science Foundation’s senior management and policy team. She will direct an SBE staff of 119 and manage a budget of approximately $250 million. Dr. Cook was Director of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern from 1996 to 2012 and past President of the Gerontological Society.
Web Information
NSF web page: http://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=fcook&org=SBE&from_org=SBE
Institute for Policy Research web page: http://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/faculty-experts/fellows/cook-f.html
Contact Information
Email: fcook@nsf.gov
Phone: (703) 292-8700
Address: 905 N, 4201 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, Virginia 22230
Biosketch
Fay Lomax Cook is on leave from Northwestern University at the National Science Foundation (NSF), where she has served as NSF Assistant Director and head of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate since September 2014. At the University, she is a faculty fellow of the Institute for Policy Research and professor of human development and social policy in the School of Education and Social Policy, with a courtesy appointment in the department of political science. Her research focuses on the interrelationships between public opinion and social policy, the politics of public policy, ...
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