国际英语新闻：Obama announces members of oil spill commission

Cherry Murray was appointed the Dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in July 2009, and is currently the Past President of the American Physical Society.

Fran Ulmer is Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska's largest public university.

"I am grateful they have agreed to serve as we work to determine the causes of this catastrophe and implement the safety and environmental protections we need to prevent a similar disaster from happening again," Obama said in a statement released by the White House.

The bipartisan commission, established through an Executive Order, is tasked with providing recommendations on how the U.S. can prevent -- and mitigate the impact of -- any future spills that result from offshore drilling. The commission is co-chaired by former two-term Florida Governor and former U.S. Senator Bob Graham and former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency William K. Reilly.