Marye Anne Fox to Receive the Clark Kerr Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education

Marye Anne Fox, chancellor emerita of the University of California at San Diego, has been selected to receive the 2014 Clark Kerr Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education from the University of California at Berkeley Academic Senate. The award was established in 1968 to honor Clark Kerr, who was president of the University of California.

The citation for the award reads, “Dr. Fox has used her scientific and administrative leadership positions to enhance the vitality of our national research enterprise by working tirelessly and effectively to strengthen science education and science policy.”

Dr. Fox, who served as chancellor of the University of California at San Diego from 2004 to 2012, remains on the faculty at the university as a professor of chemistry and biochemistry. Before coming to San Diego, Professor Fox was chancellor of North Carolina State University. Earlier in her career, she served for 22 years on the faulty at the University of Texas. In 2010, she was awarded the National Medal of Science.

Dr. Fox is a graduate of Notre Dame College. She earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at Dartmouth College.