Washington : Subra Suresh, President Barack Obama’s top Indian-American science official, has resigned as director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to become the president of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
Obama appointed Suresh in 2010 as head of NSF, a $7 billion independent federal science agency charged with advancing all fields of fundamental science and engineering research and related education. “Subra has shown himself to be a consummate scientist and engineer – beholden to evidence and committed to upholding the highest scientific standards,” Obama said accepting Suresh’s resignation.
