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Incoming NSF director faces challenges in Congress

Former Purdue University president France Córdova inherits an agency at a crossroads.

By all accounts, astrophysicist France Córdova thrives in the face of a challenge. As NASA’s chief scientist in the mid-1990s, she helped then-administrator Daniel Goldin to push his ‘faster, better, cheaper’ vision for space research. Later, as chancellor of the University of California, Riverside, she won approval for a long-sought medical school. And during her 2007–12 tenure as president of Purdue University, she helped to double research funding despite a global recession.