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Dr. Marye Anne Fox
Former Observer, KAUST International Advisory Council
Chancellor, University of California, San Diego
United States
Marye Anne Fox is the seventh chancellor of the University of California, San Diego and professor of Chemistry. Before her current appointment, she served as North Carolina State University's 12th chancellor, as distinguished university professor of chemistry at North Carolina State, and as Waggoner Regents Chair in Chemistry and vice president for research at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a member of President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and chaired its panel on Broadband Infrastructure for the 21st Century. She previously has served on the Council of the National Academy of Sciences and its Governing Board, and currently serves on its Committee on Science and Education Public Policy and as a co-chair of its Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable. In 1990, after confirmation by the U.S. Senate to the National Science Board, she served as its vice chairman (1994-96) and chaired its Committee on Programs and Plans (1991-94). She chaired the Chemistry Section of American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has advised its Center for Science, Technology and Congress. In addition, she is a member of the Council on Competitiveness and serves on the National Security Higher Education Advisory Board and the National Council for Science in the Environment.
Chancellor Fox has published more than 350 refereed papers, six books, and nearly 30 book chapters, mostly in organic photochemistry and electrochemistry. Her work has application in materials science, solar energy conversion, and environmental chemistry. In recognition of her work in the field of physical organic chemistry, she has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association of Advancement of Science. From the American Chemical Society, she has received the Garvan Award and the Southwest Regional Award, and has been named an Arthur C. Cope Scholar. She also serves on the boards of the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund and the Dreyfus Foundation, and on the scientific advisory committee of the Welch Foundation, along with a number of community and professional boards.
Chancellor Fox received her bachelor's of science degree from Notre Dame College, and her doctorate from Dartmouth College, both in Chemistry. After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Maryland, she joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin, in 1976.