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Bank of America Names Maria Zuber to Board of Directors
Bank of America's Board of Directors today appointed Dr. Maria Zuber as
a director, effective immediately.
Zuber, 59, currently serves as the E. A. Griswold Professor of
Geophysics and the vice president for research at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT (News - Alert)), where she is responsible for research
administration and policy. She chairs the National Science Board, having
been appointed as a member by President Barack Obama in 2013. Since
2010, she has also served as a senior research scientist at the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In 2004, President Bush
appointed her to the Presidential Commission on the Implementation of
United States Space Exploration Policy.
"Dr. Zuber brings to our board diverse perspectives in several areas,
including technology and risk management," said Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer Brian Moynihan. "We look forward to benefiting from
her unique talents and experience."
Zuber has been appointed to the Enterprise Risk and Corporate Governance
Committees of the Bank of America Board of Directors.
"Dr. Zuber adds even more diversity and experience to our board," said
Jack Bovender, lead independent director. "More than a third of our
independent directors are women, and the average tenure of the
independent directors is six years."
In 2002, Discover magazine named Zuber one of the 50 most important
women in science, and in 2008, she was named to the U.S. News & World
Report/Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership List of
America's Best Leaders.
Zuber oversees MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and more than a dozen
interdisciplinary research laboratories and centers, including the
Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Koch Institute for
Integrative Cancer Research, the MIT Energy and Environmental Solutions
Initiatives, the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, the Research
Laboratory of Electronics, the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies,
ad Haystack Observatory. She is also responsible for intellectual
property and research integrity and compliance, as well as research
relationships with the federal government.
Zuber served as the head of MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and
Planetary Sciences from 2003 to 2011. Since 1990, she has held
leadership roles associated with scientific experiments or
instrumentation on nine NASA missions, notably acting as principal
investigator for NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory
mission, an effort to map the moon's gravitational field.
Zuber has won numerous awards, including the MIT James R. Killian Jr.
Faculty Achievement Award; NASA's Outstanding Scientific Achievement
Medal; Distinguished Public Service Medal and Outstanding Public
Leadership Medal; the American Geophysical Union Harry H. Hess Medal;
the Geological Society of America G. K. Gilbert Award; and the American
Astronautical Society/Planetary Society Carl Sagan Memorial Award. She
is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and American
Philosophical Society, and is a fellow for the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
the Geological Society and the American Geophysical Union. Zuber also
serves on the Board of Fellows of Brown University.
Bank of America Bank of America is one of the world's leading
financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and
middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of
banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk
management products and services. The company provides unmatched
convenience in the United States, serving approximately 47 million
consumer and small business relationships with approximately 4,500
retail financial centers, approximately 16,000 ATMs, and award-winning
digital banking with approximately 34 million active users, including
approximately 24 million mobile users. Bank of America is a global
leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and
trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations,
governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of
America offers industry-leading support to approximately 3 million small
business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online
products and services. The company serves clients through operations in
all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto
Rico and more than 35 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock
(NYSE: BAC) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
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