Annual Election of AAAS Officers
The AAAS 2011 elections for President-Elect, members of the Board of Directors, the Committee on Nominations, and the officers for the 24 sections will open at the end of December.
Current members of AAAS will be sent ballots and may vote either online or by returning a paper ballot. Please make sure your address and email are up-to-date with our Membership office (email) to ensure you receive your election material.
If you have any questions about the election process, please contact Kelly O’Brien in the Executive Office at email.
2011 Slate of Candidates
General Election
President: Phillip A. Sharp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jeremy A. Sabloff, Santa Fe Institute
Board of Directors: Bonnie L. Bassler, Princeton Univ.; May Berenbaum, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David A. Fischhoff, Monsanto; Michael S. Turner, Univ. of Chicago
Committee on Nominations: William Brinkman, U.S. Department of Energy; E. William Colglazier, U.S. Department of State; S. James Gates, Jr., Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Mary-Claire King, Univ. of Washington; Barbara J. Meyer, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Cherry A. Murray, Harvard Univ.; George M. Whitesides, Harvard Univ.; Keith R. Yamamoto, Univ. of California, San Francisco
Section Elections
Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources
Chair Elect: Harry J. Klee, Univ. of Florida; Susan R. McCouch, Cornell Univ.
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Jo Handelsman, Yale Univ.; David J. Mackill, Univ. of California, Davis
Electorate Nominating Committee: Edward S. Buckler, Cornell Univ.; Candace Haigler, North Carolina State Univ.; Leon Kochian, Cornell Univ.; Gregory B. Martin, Cornell Univ./Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
Council Delegate: Thomas W. Bruulsema, International Plant Nutrition Institute; Maud A. Hinchee, ArborGen, Inc.
Anthropology
Chair Elect: Dennis H. O’Rourke, Univ. of Utah; John H. Relethford, SUNY-Oneonta
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Kathleen R. Gibson, Univ. of Texas-Houston Health Science Center Medical School; Karen R. Rosenberg, Univ. of Delaware
Electorate Nominating Committee: David G. Anderson, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; Robert G. Franciscus, Univ. of Iowa; Leslea J. Hlusko, Univ. of California, Berkeley; James J. McKenna, Notre Dame Univ.
Astronomy
Chair Elect: Michael F. A’Hearn, U. of Maryland, College Park; Sandra M. Faber, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: S. George Djorgovski, California Institute of Technology; Megan Donahue, Michigan State Univ.
Electorate Nominating Committee: Carol A. Christian, Space Telescope Science Institute; Eli Dwek, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Martha P. Haynes, Cornell Univ.; Bruce Margon, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences
Chair Elect: Andrew Dessler, Texas A&M Univ.; Michael D. King, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Russell R. Dickerson, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Alan Mix, Oregon State Univ.
Electorate Nominating Committee: Dennis A. Hansell, Univ. of Miami; Margaret Leinen, Florida Atlantic Univ.; Joyce E. Penner, Univ. of Michigan; Don Wuebbles, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Biological Sciences
Chair Elect: Joy Bergelson, Univ. of Chicago; John Doebley, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Scott V. Edwards, Harvard Univ.; Ellen D. Ketterson, Indiana Univ.
Electorate Nominating Committee: Robert R. H. Anholt, North Carolina State Univ.; Sarah Hake, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Jeannie T. Lee, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School; Patricia J. Pukkila, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chemistry
Chair Elect: Ehud Keinan, Technion Univ., Israel/Scripps Research Institute; Alfred P. Sattelberger, Argonne National Laboratory
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Mark Ediger, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Melanie Sanford, Univ. of Michigan
Electorate Nominating Committee: Anna K. Mapp, Univ. of Michigan; Coleen Pugh, Univ. of Akron; Shannon S. Stahl, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; William B. Tolman, Univ. of Minnesota
Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences
Chair Elect: Paul H. Krebsbach, Univ. of Michigan; Ichiro Nishimura, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Casey Chen, Univ. of Southern California School of Dentistry; Christopher H. Fox, American Assn. for Dental Research/Intl. Assn. for Dental Research
Electorate Nominating Committee: Anne George, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago; Steven D. Goodman, Univ. of Southern California; Lynne A. Opperman, Texas A&M Health Science Center; J. Timothy Wright, Univ. of North Carolina School of Dentistry
Education
Chair Elect: Willie Pearson, Jr., Georgia Tech; Samuel M. Taylor, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
eMember-at-Large of the Section Committee: Dale Rose Baker, Arizona State Univ.; Margaret R. Bolick, North Carolina A&T Univ.
Electorate Nominating Committee: Julia V. Clark, National Science Foundation; Rainer E. Glaser, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia; Judy Scotchmoor, Univ. of California, Berkeley; LeeAnn Srogi, West Chester Univ.
Engineering
Chair Elect: Kristina M. Johnson, Enduring Energy, LLC; Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Univ. of Michigan
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Taft H. Broome, Jr., Howard Univ.; Alan Eli Willner, Univ. of Southern California
Electorate Nominating Committee: Linda P.B. Katehi, Univ. of California, Davis; Russell Lefevre, Univ. of North Dakota; Edmund G. Seebauer, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Gregory Stephanopoulos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Council Delegate: William E. Bentley, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Stuart L. Cooper, Ohio State Univ.; Anthony M. Johnson, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County; Larry V. McIntire, Georgia Tech/Emory Univ.
General Interest in Science and Engineering
Chair Elect: Eric J. Jolly, Science Museum of Minnesota; Marilee Long, Colorado State Univ.
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Joseph M. DeSimone, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Erica Goldman, COMPASS (Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea)
Electorate Nominating Committee: Lynne Timpani Friedmann, ScienceWriters Magazine; Barbara Gastel, Texas A&M Univ.; James P. O’Brien, Tidewater Community College; J. Michael Redding, Tennessee Technological Univ.
Geology and Geography
Chair Elect: Tim Dixon, Univ. of South Florida; Emi Ito, Univ. of Minnesota;
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Sherilyn C. Fritz, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln; Naomi Oreskes, Univ. of California, San Diego
Electorate Nominating Committee: Brenda Ekwurzel, Union of Concerned Scientists; Karl W. Flessa, Univ. of Arizona; Philip A. Meyers, Univ. of Michigan (emeritus); Walter D. Mooney, U.S. Geological Survey
History and Philosophy of Science
Chair Elect: Davis Baird, Clark Univ.; Geoffrey C. Bowker, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Cathryn Carson, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Naomi Oreskes, Univ. of California, San Diego
Electorate Nominating Committee: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette, Smithsonian Institution Archives; Thomas Nickles, Univ. of Nevada, Reno; Robert T. Pennock, Michigan State Univ.; Zuoyue Wang, California State Polytechnic Univ., Pomona
Council Delegate: Carl F. Cranor, Univ. of California, Riverside; Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Univ. of Florida
Industrial Science and Technology
Chair Elect: Thomas Mason, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; John L. Sarrao, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: François Coallier, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada; Benn Tannenbaum, Sandia National Laboratories
Electorate Nominating Committee: Tom Meade, Dow AgroSciences; Thomas P. Russell, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst; Proctor P. Reid, National Academy of Engineering; Wen-li Wu, National Institute of Standards & Technology
Council Delegate: Elizabeth R. Cantwell, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Kimon P. Valavanis, Univ. of Denver
Information, Computing, and Communication
Chair Elect: Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research; Henry Kautz, Univ. of Rochester
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Peter A. Freeman, Georgia Tech; José-Marie Griffiths, Bryant Univ.
Electorate Nominating Committee: Toni Carbo, Drexel Univ.; Tom Dietterich, Oregon State Univ.; David D. Lewis, Consultant; Paul F. Uhlir, National Academy of Sciences
Linguistics and Language Science
Chair Elect: Karen Emmorey, San Diego State Univ.; Keren Rice, Univ. of Toronto, Canada;
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Laura L. Koenig, Long Island Univ./Haskins Laboratories; Colin Phillips, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Electorate Nominating Committee: Mark Aronoff, Stony Brook Univ.; Hagit Borer, Univ. of Southern California; Eric Potsdam, Univ. of Florida; Don Ringe, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Mathematics
Chair Elect: David C. Manderscheid, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln; Juan C. Meza, Univ. of California, Merced
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: James H. Curry, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Sheldon Katz, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Electorate Nominating Committee: Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Arizona State Univ.; David Kinderlehrer, Carnegie Mellon Univ.; Phil Kutzko, Univ. of Iowa; Annie Selden, Tennessee Technological Univ.
Medical Sciences
Chair Elect: Barry Coller, Rockefeller Univ.; Beverly L. Davidson, Univ. of Iowa
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Harry B. Greenberg, Stanford Univ. School of Medicine; Claire Pomeroy, UC Davis Health System
Electorate Nominating Committee: Karen Hsiao Ashe, Univ. of Minnesota Medical School; Daniel DiMaio, Yale School of Medicine; Stephen Feinstone, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Katherine Amberson Hajjar, Weill Cornell Medical College
Council Delegate: Jay A. Berzofsky, National Institutes of Health; Stephen B. Calderwood, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School; Mary C. Dinauer, Washington Univ. School of Medicine in St. Louis; Katherine A. High, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; James A. Hoxie, Univ. of Pennsylvania Medical School; Nancy H. Ruddle, Yale Univ. School of Medicine
Neuroscience
Chair Elect: Joseph T. Coyle, Harvard Medical School; Margaret M. McCarthy, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Yehuda Ben-Shahar, Washington Univ. in St. Louis; Robert Vassar, Northwestern Univ. Medical School
Electorate Nominating Committee: Jeffrey Cummings, Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Bart De Strooper, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Samer Hattar, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Michael J. Zigmond, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Chair Elect: Kenneth D. Tew, Medical Univ. of South Carolina; Rick G. Schnellmann, Medical Univ. of South Carolina
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: John F. Carpenter, Univ. of Colorado; Jashvant (Jash) D. Unadkat, Univ. of Washington
Electorate Nominating Committee: Alice M. Clark, Univ. of Mississippi; James M. Gallo, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; Ashim K. Mitra, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City; Murali Ramanathan, Univ. at Buffalo
Physics
Chair Elect: Robert A. Eisenstein, Santa Fe Alliance for Science; Jay Marx, California Institute of Technology
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: David K. Campbell, Boston Univ.; William C. Louis, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Electorate Nominating Committee: Ravindra N. Bhatt, Princeton Univ.; E. Dan Dahlberg, Univ. of Minnesota; Angela V. Olinto, Univ. of Chicago; Stuart Parkin, IBM Research
Psychology
Chair Elect: Richard N. Aslin, Univ. of Rochester; Gary G. Berntson, Ohio State Univ.
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Susan T. Fiske, Princeton Univ.; Gary S. Dell, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Electorate Nominating Committee: Keith J. Holyoak, Univ. of California, Los Angeles; William G. Iacono, Univ. of Minnesota; Barbara A. Spellman, Univ. of Virginia; Sandra R. Waxman, Northwestern Univ.
Council Delegate: Peter J. Lang, Univ. of Florida; Lewis P. Lipsitt, Brown Univ.
Social, Economic, and Political Sciences
Chair Elect: David Collier, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Arthur Lupia, Univ. of Michigan
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Eileen M. Crimmins, Univ. of Southern California; Gary King, Harvard Univ.
Electorate Nominating Committee: Lynda T. Carlson, National Science Foundation; C. Gregory Knight, Pennsylvania State Univ.; Jonathan D. Mayer, Univ. of Washington; Aman Ullah, Univ. of California, Riverside
Council Delegate: Ronald R. Rindfuss, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Amy O. Tsui, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering
Chair Elect : Susan E. Cozzens, Georgia Tech; Karen A. Rader, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Ruth L. Fischbach, Columbia Univ.; Mark Largent, Michigan State Univ.
Electorate Nominating Committee: Christopher J. Bosso, Northeastern Univ.; Richard Creath, Arizona State Univ.; David H. DeVorkin, Smithsonian Institution; Doris Teichler Zallen, Virginia Tech
Statistics
Chair Elect: Sally C. Morton, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Jane-Ling Wang, Univ. of California, Davis
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: R.W. Doerge, Purdue Univ.; Jessica Utts, Univ. of California, Irvine
Electorate Nominating Committee: Xuming He, Univ. of Michigan; Hans-Georg Müller, Univ. of California, Davis; Javier Rojo, Rice Univ.; Naisyin Wang, Univ. of Michigan