Nobel Laureate Peter Agre to Serve As AAAS President-Elect

Peter C. Agre

[Photograph courtesy of the Duke University School of Medicine]

Nobel laureate Peter C. Agre, a chemist and Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology at Duke University School of Medicine, has been chosen to serve as president-elect of AAAS beginning 19 February, at the close of the 2008 Annual Meeting in Boston. Agre would assume the presidency of AAAS in February 2009.

Agre shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of aquaporins, the key proteins that transport water across cell membranes. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, chair of the NAS Committee on Human Rights and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

On 19 February, the current president-elect, James J. McCarthy, will begin a one-year term as AAAS president. McCarthy is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University. The current president, David Baltimore, will begin a one-year term as chairman of the AAAS Board of Directors at the close of the Annual Meeting. Baltimore is the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology and head of the Baltimore Lab at the California Institute of Technology

Here are the full election results, with all terms starting at the end of the year's Annual Meeting in February:

General Offices

President-Elect: Peter C. Agre

Board of Directors: Nancy Knowlton, Thomas A. Woolsey

Committee on Nominations: Diana Hicks, Karen A. Holbrook, Peter H. Raven, Lydia Villa-Komaroff

Section on Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources

Chair-Elect: Daniel Bush

Member-at-Large: Sally Mackenzie

Electorate Nominating Committee: Pamela J. Green, Charles W. Rice

Section on Anthropology

Chair-Elect: Michael A. Little

Member-at-Large: Dennis H. O'Rourke

Electorate Nominating Committee: William R. Leonard, Karen R. Rosenberg

Section on Astronomy

Chair-Elect: Steven V. W. Beckwith

Member-at-Large: Nancy D. Morrison

Electorate Nominating Committee: Lynn R. Cominsky, William S. Smith, Jr.

Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences

Chair-Elect: Margaret Leinen

Member-at-Large: Eugenia Kalnay

Electorate Nominating Committee: Syukuro Manabe, Terry Whitledge

Council Delegate: Claire L. Parkinson

Section on Biological Sciences

Chair-Elect: Barbara L. Illman

Member-at-Large: Diana G. Myles

Electorate Nominating Committee: Michael W. Nachman, Baldomero "Toto" Olivera

Section on Chemistry

Chair-Elect: Geraldine Richmond

Member-at-Large: Peter B. Armentrout

Electorate Nominating Committee: Alison Butler, Mark A. Ratner

Section on Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences

Chair-Elect: Huw F. Thomas

Member-at-Large: Susan W. Herring

Electorate Nominating Committee: Mark W. Lingen, Janet Moradian-Oldak

Council Delegate: Jacques E. Nör

Section on Education

Chair-Elect: Judith A. Dilts

Member-at-Large: Robert Tinker

Electorate Nominating Committee: Judy Diamond, Susan H. Hixson

Council Delegate: Rodger W. Bybee

Section on Engineering

Chair-Elect: Robert M. Nerem

Member-at-Large: Cristina H. Amon

Electorate Nominating Committee: Kristi S. Anseth, Cindy Atman

Section on General Interest in Science and Engineering

Chair-Elect: Charles N. Haas

Member-at-Large: Erika C. Shugart

Electorate Nominating Committee: Joann Ellison Rodgers, John L. Safko, Sr.

Council Delegate: Julie Ann Miller

Section on Geology and Geography

Chair-Elect: Susan Trumbore

Member-at-Large: Jill S. Baron

Electorate Nominating Committee: Kam-biu Liu, Ellen Mosley-Thompson

Section on History and Philosophy of Science

Chair-Elect: Alan J. Rocke

Member-at-Large: Paul Lawrence Farber

Electorate Nominating Committee: Rachelle D. Hollander, Phillip R. Sloan

Section on Industrial Science and Technology

Chair-Elect: S. Tom Picraux

Member-at-Large: Ray H. Baughman

Electorate Nominating Committee: Tingye Li, Robert W. Sprague

Section on Information, Computing, and Communication

Chair-Elect: Edward D. Lazowska

Member-at-Large: Benjamin Kuipers

Electorate Nominating Committee: James D. Foley, Clifford A. Lynch

Council Delegate: Lewis M. Branscomb

Section on Linguistics and Language Science

Chair-Elect: Annie Zaenen

Member-at-Large: Mark Aronoff

Electorate Nominating Committee: Joan Maling, Sally McConnell-Ginet

Council Delegate: Keren Rice

Section on Mathematics

Chair-Elect: Keith Devlin

Member-at-Large: Warren Page

Electorate Nominating Committee: Harold P. Boas, Deborah F. Lockhart

Section on Medical Sciences

Chair-Elect: Christine A. Biron

Member-at-Large: R. Arlene H. Sharpe

Electorate Nominating Committee: Harry B. Greenberg, Margaret K. Hostetter

Section on Neuroscience

Chair-Elect: Mahlon R. DeLong

Member-at-Large: Hollis T. Cline

Electorate Nominating Committee: Rosemarie Booze, Charles D. Gilbert

Section on Pharmaceutical Sciences

Chair-Elect: William E. Evans

Member-at-Large: C. Anthony Hunt

Electorate Nominating Committee: F. Douglas Boudinot, Günter Hochhaus

Council Delegate: Patrick J. Sinko

Section on Physics

Chair-Elect: Bill R. Appleton

Member-at-Large: Gene D. Sprouse

Electorate Nominating Committee: Robert P. Redwine, Antoinette (Toni) Taylor

Section on Psychology

Chair-Elect: Edward Taub

Member-at-Large: Susan Goldin-Meadow

Electorate Nominating Committee: Jeffrey R. Alberts, Jeri S. Janowsky

Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences

Chair-Elect: Karen S. Cook

Member-at-Large: Judith M. Tanur

Electorate Nominating Committee: Henry E. Brady, Nancy M. Gordon

Section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering

Chair-Elect: Dan Kammen

Member-at-Large: Kerri-Ann Jones

Electorate Nominating Committee: Thomas Dietz, Michele Garfinkel

Council Delegate: Robert Cook-Deegan

Section on Statistics

Chair-Elect: W. Michael O'Fallon

Member-at-Large: Randall K. Spoeri

Electorate Nominating Committee: Joseph L. Gastwirth, Fritz Scheuren

Council Delegate: David L. DeMets

26 December 2007