Jerry Gollub, the John and Barbara Bush Professor in the Natural Sciences, has been appointed by the President of the National Academy of Sciences to a position at the National Research Council, the Academy's research organization that advises the federal government on hundreds of issues related to science and technology.
Gollub now serves as a member of the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, a board that oversees all of the work of the NRC in the areas of physical and applied sciences. Gollub has also been elected to represent the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society (APS) on the Governing Council of the APS.
He continues to serve on the Advisory Board of the National Science Resources Center, developers of primary school science curricula affiliated with the National Academy. A member of Haverford's faculty since 1970, Gollub has done pioneering research in the fields of chaos and nonlinear dynamics, fluid dynamics and condensed matter physics.
