NAS Member Roger Beachy to Join Obama Administration
By Maureen O’Leary
September 29, 2009 – President Barack Obama recently announced that Roger N. Beachy, founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, has been appointed the first director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Beachy, elected to the NAS in 1997, will join the agency on Oct. 5.