MPS Assistant Director's Blogs
January 10, 2018
Dr. James S. Ulvestad, Assistant Director (Acting)
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
The Current State of MPS
For astronomers and astrophysicists, the name Jim Ulvestad isn’t a new one since I have spent the past seven years as the Astronomical Sciences division director. Prior to that, I spent more than a decade each at the NSF’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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