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President Nominates Bement as NIST Director
The President has nominated Arden Bement, Jr. to be Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology at the Department of Commerce. Bement has been at Purdue University since 1993, where he is the head of the School of Nuclear Engineering. Bement is Chairman of the Advanced Technology Program's Advisory Committee, has served on the National Science Board, and was active with the Cleveland Advanced Manufacturing Program (CAMP), an Edison Technology Center.
From 1980 to 1993, he was with TRW, Inc., where he was Vice President for Technical Resources from 1980 to 1988 and then Vice President for Science and Technology from 1988 to 1993. A graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, Bement has received a Master's degree from the University of Idaho and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
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