Alice S. Huang Chosen To Serve As AAAS President-Elect

Alice S. Huang

Alice S. Huang, a distinguished virologist and lifelong advocate for women in science, has been chosen to serve as president-elect of AAAS beginning 17 February, at the close of the 2009 Annual Meeting in Chicago.

Huang is a senior faculty associate in biology at the California Institute of Technology, where she was previously a senior councilor for external relations. She comes to the AAAS presidency as past president of the American Society for Microbiology and past dean for science at New York University. A member of several scientific advisory boards, Huang has also consulted on science policy for government agencies in Singapore, Taiwan, and China.

At the close of 2009 meeting, the current president-elect, Peter C. Agre, will begin a one-year term as AAAS President. Agre, a 2003 Nobel Prize laureate, is the director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The current president, James J. McCarthy, will begin a one-year term as chairman of the AAAS Board of Directors. McCarthy is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University.

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: Alice S. Huang
Board of Directors: Julia M. Phillips, David S. Sabatini
Committee on Nominations: Steven Chu, Susan Hackwood, Sallie Keller-McNulty, Jack Dixon

Section on Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources

Chair-Elect: Brian A. Larkins
Member-at-Large: Barbara Valent
Electorate Nominating Committee: Ann M. Hirsch, Mark E. Sorrells
Council Delegate: Daniel J. Cosgrove

Section on Anthropology

Chair-Elect: Clark Spencer-Larsen
Member-at-Large: Carol V. Ward
Electorate Nominating Committee: Anne C. Stone, Dolores R. Piperno

Section on Astronomy

Chair-Elect: Alan P. Boss
Member-at-Large: Donald Campbell
Electorate Nominating Committee: Michael Werner, Giovanni G. Fazio

Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences

Chair-Elect: Alan Robock
Member-at-Large: Kevin E. Trenberth
Electorate Nominating Committee: Margaret (Peggy) LeMone, Jim Coakley

Section on Biological Sciences

Chair-Elect: Trudy Mackay
Member-at-Large: Margaret Werner-Washburne
Electorate Nominating Committee: Joan W. Bennett, Eric Ursell Selker

Section on Chemistry

Chair-Elect: Charles P. Casey
Member-at-Large: Ronald W. Woodard
Electorate Nominating Committee: Brian M. Stoltz, Jonathan A. Ellman

Section on Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences

Chair-Elect: Margarita Zeichner-David
Member-at-Large: Ira B. Lamster
Electorate Nominating Committee: Laurie K. McCauley, Frank A. Scannapieco

Section on Education

Chair-Elect: Joseph Krajcik
Member-at-Large: Jay B. Labov
Electorate Nominating Committee: Suzanne O'Connell, Mary Monroe Atwater

Section on Engineering

Chair-Elect: Duncan T. Moore
Member-at-Large: Christine M. Maziar
Electorate Nominating Committee: Kristen Fichthorn, Pradeep K. Khosla
Council Delegate: Gail H. Marcus, James L. Merz

Section on General Interest in Science and Engineering

Chair-Elect: Kathryn D. Sullivan
Member-at-Large: Sharon M. Friedman
Electorate Nominating Committee: Gloria J. Takahashi, Robert J. Griffin

Section on Geology and Geography

Chair-Elect: Malcolm Hughes
Member-at-Large: Jean Lynch-Stieglitz
Electorate Nominating Committee: Timothy Gordon Fisher, Elizabeth A. Canuel

Section on History and Philosophy of Science

Chair-Elect: Richard Creath
Member-at-Large: Heather E. Douglas
Electorate Nominating Committee: Nancy J. Nersessian, Alain Touwaide
Council Delegate: Virginia Trimble

Section on Industrial Science and Technology

Chair-Elect: Jennie C. Hunter-Cevera
Member-at-Large: Harry S. Hertz
Electorate Nominating Committee: Qinghuang Lin, Robert Boily
Council Delegate: Steven W. Popper

Section on Information, Computing, and Communication

Chair-Elect: Bart Selman
Member-at-Large: Julia Gelfand
Electorate Nominating Committee: Christine L. Borgman, Bonnie C. Carol

Section on Linguistics and Language Science

Chair-Elect: David W. Lightfoot
Member-at-Large: Suzanne Flynn
Electorate Nominating Committee: Elizabeth C. Traugott, Douglas H. Whalen

Section on Mathematics

Chair-Elect: Kenneth C. Millett
Member-at-Large: Tony F. Chan
Electorate Nominating Committee: Douglas N. Arnold, Robert M. Fossum

Section on Medical Sciences

Chair-Elect: Judy Lieberman
Member-at-Large: Robert Doms
Electorate Nominating Committee: Beverly Davidson, Wendy C. Brown
Council Delegate: Jennifer M. Puck, James H. Hughes, Etty (Tika) Benveniste, Reed E. Pyeritz, Terence S. Dermody

Section on Neuroscience

Chair-Elect: Michael T. Shipley
Member-at-Large: Gail Mandel
Electorate Nominating Committee: Michael S. Wolfe, Erik D. Herzog

Section on Pharmaceutical Sciences

Chair-Elect: Gary M. Pollack
Member-at-Large: William T. Beck
Electorate Nominating Committee: Craig K. Svensson, Per Artursson

Section on Physics

Chair-Elect: Charles W. Clark
Member-at-Large: Alexander L. Fetter
Electorate Nominating Committee: Elizabeth H. Simmons, Ali Yazdani

Section on Psychology

Chair-Elect: Stephen J. Suomi
Member-at-Large: Jenny Saffran
Electorate Nominating Committee: Denise Park, David Shapiro
Council Delegate: John Gabrieli

Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences

Chair-Elect: Eugene A. Rosa
Member-at-Large: Wendy Baldwin
Electorate Nominating Committee: Robert F. Rich, Anil B. Deolalikar
Council Delegate: Nicholas Christakis

Section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering

Chair-Elect: Bruce V. Lewenstein
Member-at-Large: Melanie Leitner
Electorate Nominating Committee: Robert M. Simon, Michael L. Telson

Section on Statistics

Chair-Elect: Joel B. Greenhouse
Member-at-Large: Kenneth W. Wachter
Electorate Nominating Committee: Nancy Reid, Mary A. Foulkes

29 January 2009