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Deputy Assistant Director
Directorate for Geosciences
National Science Foundation
Margaret A. Cavanaugh recently joined the Directorate for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation as Deputy Assistant Director. For four years previous to this appointment, she served as Staff Associate for the Environment in the Office of the Director. Dr. Cavanaugh came to NSF in 1989 as Program Director for the Inorganic, Bioinorganic, and Organometallic Chemistry Program. While in the Chemistry Division, she managed programs on Environmentally Benign Chemical Synthesis & Processing, Environmental Molecular Science Institutes, and Environmental Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry. Currently she chairs a staff advisory committee on environmental research and education which, among many other programs, guides the Foundation’s Biocomplexity in the Environment competition, and serves as the Executive Secretary for the NSF Advisory Committee on Environmental Research and Education (AC-ERE).
Prior to joining the NSF, Dr. Cavanaugh was Professor and Chair of the Chemistry Department of Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Ind. Dr. Cavanaugh received her B.S. degree from the University of Pittsburgh, her Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America, and carried out postdoctoral research at Louisiana State University in New Orleans. She chairs the ACS (American Chemical Society) Committee on Science, and is a founding member of COACh, an independent Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists.