Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Senior Program Officer Donald J. Waters to Retire
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Senior Program Officer for Scholarly Communications, Donald J. Waters, will retire on August 31, 2019 after 20 years of exceptional service at the Foundation.
“Over the past two decades, Don has developed a magnificent vision for scholarly communications across the humanities landscape, and exerted the intellectual leadership to implement it, always working with trusted partners in the field,” remarked Mariët Westermann, executive vice president for programs and research. “He has been ahead of many in his understanding of the enormous opportunities, challenges, and risks attendant on the digital transformation of the cultural record, its preservation, and its dissemination. The humanities field is forever in his debt...