Slide words: "The toughest challenge that [NSF is] facing right now is one that is faced by all of the research institutions that are funded by taxpayer dollars — relevance." - Vinton Cerf, Google VP and NSB member

Slide image: Photo of a one-page article in Nature entitled "Incoming NSF director faces challenges in Congress." The article shows a photo of Dr. France A. Córdova.

Image credit: Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: “Incoming NSF director faces challenges in Congress” by Jessica Morrison, Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, Mar 18, 2014