Chemistry Professor Sue Clark Named to Federal Nuclear Waste Oversight Board

Sue B. Clark, Regents Professor of analytical chemistry at Washington State University, was appointed by President Obama to serve as a member of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. The board provides scientific and technical oversight of the Department of Energy’s programs for disposing of high-level radioactive waste.

Professor Clark has been on the faculty at Washington State since 1996. She previously taught at the University of Georgia and Clemson University.

Dr. Clark is a graduate of Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Florida State University.