Peter H. Raven, Ph.D., the Engelmann Professor of Botany in Arts & Sciences and director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, has been appointed to the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science by President George W. Bush.
Raven will serve on a 12-member committee of scientists and engineers that reviews nominations and makes recommendations to the president. He will serve the remainder of a three-year term that will expire Dec. 31, 2006.
Other new appointees are Francisco Cigarroa of Texas; Denice Dee Denton of Washington; and Margaret Wright of New Jersey.
Raven received the National Medal of Science — the nation’s highest scientific honor — in 2000 for his leadership in efforts to preserve biodiversity and a sustainable environment.