NAS vice president Diane Griffin died unexpectedly on Monday, October 28 at age 84 in Baltimore, where she was a University Distinguished Service Professor, Gilman Scholar, and chair emeritus of the W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Diane was elected to the NAS in 2004, and in addition to her service as NAS vice president, at the time of her death she was a member of the National Research Council (NRC) Governing Board and the NAS Committee on International Security and Arms Control.
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