"This is a time of challenge, perhaps more than we've seen in several decades--when major research universities are acting under some duress and, perhaps, when some science in the U.S. has come somewhat into question," says Cornelius J. Pings, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He will assume the AAU presidency on February 15.
Pings will succeed Robert M. Rosenzweig, who has served a decade in the post. Rosenzweig, the vice president for public affairs at Stanford University before joining AAU, will now do university consulting and writing from his home in California.
Pings, who has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, identifies some members of the U.S. legislative and executive branches of government as being particularly wary about the money currently allocated to support scientific research.
"Appropriations being approved by Congress are flat, or of a lesser rate of ...
