Loading…
This event has ended. Visit the official site or create your own event on Sched.



avatar for Sally Rockey

Sally Rockey

Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
Executive Director

Dr. Sally Rockey became the inaugural Executive Director of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture (FFAR) in September 2015. Prior to this role, Dr. Rockey was a leader in Federal research, overseeing the operations of the extramural programs in both agriculture and biomedicine.  She spent 19 years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture where she held a number of positions within the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service.  Very early in her career she became the head of the competitive grants program, overseeing the extramural grants process and portfolio.  In her last few years with USDA she was the Chief Information Officer, applying her breadth of government knowledge to IT.  From there she moved to and spent 11 years with the National Institutes of Health. As Deputy Director for Extramural Research, Dr. Rockey oversaw the operations of the largest Federal extramural research program and led groundbreaking initiatives and activities that have and will have a lasting positive impact on the research community.    

Dr. Rockey received her Ph.D. in Entomology from the Ohio State University and did postgraduate work at University of Wisconsin prior to joining the government.  She has devoted her career to improving people’s lives through research and will continue her mission by seeing FFAR become an essential component of the scientific enterprise.
Thursday, September 15
 

8:00am EDT

10:00am EDT

10:30am EDT

12:30pm EDT

1:30pm EDT

3:30pm EDT

4:00pm EDT

 
Friday, September 16
 

8:00am EDT

10:00am EDT

10:30am EDT

12:30pm EDT

1:30pm EDT

3:30pm EDT

3:45pm EDT

6:00pm EDT

 

Twitter Feed