[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 49 (Thursday, March 27, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E466]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


 CONGRATULATING DR. FAY LOMAX COOK ON HER APPOINTMENT TO THE NATIONAL 
 SCIENCE FOUNDATION AS THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR THE DIRECTORATE FOR 
                 SOCIAL, BEHAVIORAL & ECONOMIC SCIENCES

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                          HON. DANIEL LIPINSKI

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 27, 2014

  Mr. LIPINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Dr. Fay Lomax 
Cook on being selected by the National Science Foundation to serve as 
the assistant director for the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and 
Economic Sciences. Dr. Cook will make an excellent addition to the 
National Science Foundation where she will help to promote the 
understanding of people and their lives by supporting research that 
reveals basic facets of human behavior and helps provide answers to 
important societal questions and problems.
   Dr. Cook is a professor at Northwestern University, where she is a 
faculty fellow of the Institute for Policy Research and a professor of 
human development and social policy in the School of Education and 
Social Policy. From 1996 to 2012, she acted as the director of the 
Institute for Policy Research, one of America's leading centers of 
nonpartisan, interdisciplinary, policy-relevant research. Her research 
focuses on the interrelationships between public opinion and public 
policy, the politics of public policy, how Americans come together to 
discuss policy issues, and the dynamics of public support for Social 
Security and other social programs.
   During her time at Northwestern University, Dr. Cook has published 
many scholarly articles in addition to authoring and co-authoring five 
books. While actively producing her original contributions to her field 
she has been the president of the Gerontological Society of America, a 
fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and 
a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
   Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing the 
tremendous accomplishments of Dr. Fay Lomax Cook and to congratulate 
her on being selected to serve as the assistant director for NSF's 
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.

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