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Lori Bettison-Varga (born c. 1962) is an American geologist and academic administrator. She is the president of the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History. Previously, she was president of Scripps College, and held positions at Pomona College, the College of Wooster, and Whitman College.
A geologist who received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, Dr. Bettison-Varga previously served six years as President and W.M. Keck Foundation Presidential Chair at Scripps College in Claremont, California.
Los Angeles, California (January 31, 2023) —Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga, President and Director of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC), has been recognized as a 2022 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest scientific society and publisher of the Science family of ...
Dr. Lori Bettison-Varga. NHMLAC President and Director. Dear Members, I hope you and your family are safe, healthy and well. The early days of 2021 have been deeply disturbing and profoundly disheartening, from the continued devastation of COVID-19 to the insurrection on January 6 at our nation’s Capitol.
Jan 2, 2018 · Like many other children growing up in Southern California, Lori Bettison-Varga, M.S. ’86, Ph.D. ’91, was scared of earthquakes. Learning what caused them sparked a lifelong interest in geology that set the course of her career. This fall she became president and director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
75000434 [2] Added to NRHP. March 4, 1975. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest natural and historical museum in the western United States. [3] Its collections include nearly 35 million specimens and artifacts and cover 4.5 billion years of history.
President and Director. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Dr. Bettison-Varga arrived at the Natural History Family of Museums in October 2015. She oversees NHM in Exposition Park, the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Hancock Park, and the William S. Hart Museum in Newhall.
