Xi. In 2003, she was awarded Syracuse University's George Arents Pioneer medal. In 2001, President Bill Clinton appointed Fedoroff to the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation. which administers the science awards. Fedoroff was Science and Technology Adviser to U.S. Secretaries of State, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton and from 2007 to 2010 to the administrator Rajiv Shah for the United States Agency for International Development. In 2007, President George W. Bush awarded her the National Medal of Science in the field of Biological Sciences, the highest award for lifetime achievement in scientific research in the United States. Fedoroff was President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) from 2011 to 2012. She is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology. Private life Fedoroff has three children and seven grandchildren. She enjoys music, theatre and singing. Fedoroff was a single mother, and as she was studying and trying to make a living, she was able to raise her three children alone. Bibliography Books Nina Fedoroff, Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods, National Academy Press, 2004, Nina Fedoroff, Plant Transposons and Genome Dynamics in Evolution, Barnes & Noble, Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, 2013, Essays and reporting See also Barbara McClintock References External links The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Nina V. Fedoroff, Evan Pugh Professor of Biology, Willaman Professor of Life Science, Penn State University Faces of Penn State American women biologists Living people 1942 births Fayetteville-Manlius High School alumni Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences alumni Rockefeller University alumni Pennsylvania State University faculty United States National Science Foundation officials Scientists from Cleveland American geneticists National Medal of Science laureates Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Science People of the United States Agency for International Development University of California, Los Angeles faculty Johns Hopkins University faculty People from Fayetteville, New York Cosmos (Australian magazine) people Santa Fe Institute people Scientists from New York (state) American people of Russian descent