The death Sunday morning of a six-day-old giant panda cub is “devastating,” Dennis Kelly, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, told reporters hours after the newborn bear was found dead.

Dennis Kelly The Smithsonian’s National Zoo announced this morning that it has selected Dennis Kelly, the president and CEO of Zoo Atlanta in Georgia, as its new director. Kelly will start at the National Zoo on Feb. 15, 2010. Kelly leaves Atlanta after six years running that city’s zoo. Prior to that, he worked at the Coca-Cola Company for 15 years and was CEO of Green Mountain Energy Co. The most recent National Zoo…