The AAAS 2016 elections for President-Elect, members of the Board of Directors, the Committee on Nominations, and the officers for the 24 sections was held from October 24 to November 22, 2016. Elected candidates are listed below and will begin their terms on February 21, 2017.
General Election
President-Elect:
Margaret A. Hamburg
National Academy of Medicine
Board of Directors:
S. James Gates, Jr.
University of Maryland, College Park
Kaye Husbands Fealing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Committee on Nominations:
Patricia Falcone, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Margaret Leinen, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton University
Elias Zerhouni, Sanofi, Inc.
Section Elections
Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources
Chair Elect:
Sarah Hake, U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Esther van der Knaap, University of Georgia
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Joan K. Lunney, U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service
Lydia P. Olander, Duke University
Anthropology
Chair Elect:
Agustin Fuentes, University of Notre Dame
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Patricia M. Lambert, Utah State University
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Cleveland Museum of Natural History/Case Western Reserve University
Fiona B. Marshall, Washington University in St. Louis
Astronomy
Chair Elect:
Bradley M. Peterson, Ohio State University
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Joan Centrella, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Eileen D. Friel, Indiana University
Chris Impey, University of Arizona
Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences
Chair Elect:
Philip Rasch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Nancy N. Rabalais, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium/Louisiana State University
Electorate Nominating Committee:
David W. Lea, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University
Council Delegates:
Diane E. Wickland, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (retired)
Biological Sciences
Chair Elect:
Michael Lynch, Indiana University
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Caroline S. Harwood, University of Washington
Electorate Nominating Committee:
M. Kathryn Barton, Carnegie Institution for Science/Stanford University
David L. Stern, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus
Council Delegate:
Jonathan A. Eisen, University of California, Davis
Chemistry
Chair Elect:
Susan M. Kauzlarich, University of California, Davis
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Robert G. Bergman, University of California, Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Nancy E. Levinger, Colorado State University
Tina M. Nenoff, Sandia National Laboratories
Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences
Chair Elect:
Pamela K. Den Besten, University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Robert A. Burne, University of Florida College of Dentistry
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Christopher H. Fox, International Association for Dental Research/American Association for Dental Research
Ophir Klein, University of California, San Francisco
Council Delegate:
Lynne A. Opperman, Texas A&M University College of Dentistry
Education
Chair Elect:
Susan Rundell Singer, Rollins College
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Linda M. Grisham, Massachusetts Bay Community College
Electorate Nominating Committee:
James J. Smith, Michigan State University
Juliana Texley, Central Michigan University
Council Delegate:
Jay B. Labov, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Engineering
Chair Elect:
Deb Niemeier, University of California, Davis
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Norma A. Alcantar, University of South Florida
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Sheryl H. Ehrman, University of Maryland, College Park
Rodney D. Priestley, Princeton University
Council Delegate:
Ian M. Robertson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
General Interest in Science and Engineering
Chair Elect:
Katherine E. Rowan, George Mason University
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
David Berube, North Carolina State University
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Marilee Long, Colorado State University
Kevin J. Niemi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Council Delegate:
JoAnn M. Valenti, Brigham Young University (Emeritus)
Geology and Geography
Chair Elect:
Janet Franklin, Arizona State University
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Kathryn (Kate) Moran, University of Victoria/Ocean Networks Canada
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Carol P. Harden, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (retired)
James W.C. White, University of Colorado Boulder
History and Philosophy of Science
Chair Elect:
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, University of Florida
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Karen A. Rader, Virginia Commonwealth University
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Rachel A. Ankeny, University of Adelaide (Australia)
Erika Lorraine Milam, Princeton University
Industrial Science and Technology
Chair Elect:
John M. Newsam, Tioga Research, Inc.
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Kirk H. Schulz, Washington State University
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Elizabeth R. Cantwell, Arizona State University
Janice G. Pero, Omnigene Bioproducts, Inc.
Information, Computing, and Communication
Chair Elect:
Toby Walsh, University of New South Wales (Australia)
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Katy Borner, Indiana University
Robin Murphy, Texas A&M University
Council Delegate:
Bonnie C. Carroll, Information International Associates/CENDI
Linguistics and Language Science
Chair Elect:
Barbara H. Partee, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Diane C. Lillo-Martin, University of Connecticut/Haskins Laboratories
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Jeffrey Lidz, University of Maryland, College Park
Laura Wagner, Ohio State University
Council Delegate:
Sandra Chung, University of California, Santa Cruz
Mathematics
Chair Elect:
Deborah F. Lockhart, National Science Foundation
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Susanne C. Brenner, Louisiana State University
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Réka Albert, Pennsylvania State University
Claudia Neuhauser, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Medical Sciences
Chair Elect:
David H. Perlmutter, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Peter M. Howley, Harvard University Medical School
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Nancy Allbritton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/North Carolina State University
Rachelle Gaudet, Harvard University
Neuroscience
Chair Elect:
Jacqueline N. Crawley, University of California, Davis School of Medicine
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
John R. Carlson, Yale University
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Karen Hsiao Ashe, University of Minnesota Twin Cities/Minneapolis VA Medical Center
Catherine E. Carr, University of Maryland, College Park
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Chair Elect:
Richard R. Neubig, Michigan State University
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Carston R. Wagner, University of Minnesota/Tychon Bioscience, Inc.
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Carolyn A. Buser, GlaxoSmithKline
Emily E. Scott, University of Michigan
Council Delegate:
Richard E. Taylor, University of Notre Dame
Physics
Chair Elect:
David D. Awschalom, University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Gabriela González, Louisiana State University
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Arjun G. Yodh, University of Pennsylvania
Clare Yu, University of California, Irvine
Psychology
Chair Elect:
Henry L. Roediger III, Washington University in St. Louis
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Roberta L. Klatzky, Carnegie Mellon University
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University/Massachusetts General Hospital
Elke U. Weber, Princeton University
Social, Economic, and Political Sciences
Chair Elect:
Lawrence D. Bobo, Harvard University
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Mary Frank Fox, Georgia Institute of Technology
Felice J. Levine, American Educational Research Association
Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering
Chair Elect:
Phyllis E. Johnson, University of North Dakota School of Medicine
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Christine M. Maziar, University of Notre Dame
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Sybil Francis, Center for the Future of Arizona
Deborah D. Stine, Carnegie Mellon University
Council Delegate:
Jennifer T. Poulakidas, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Statistics
Chair Elect:
Hal S. Stern, University of California, Irvine
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee:
Xuming He, University of Michigan
Electorate Nominating Committee:
Tim Hesterberg, Google, Inc.
Anastasios (Butch) Tsiatis, North Carolina State University
Council Delegate:
Nancy Reid, University of Toronto (Canada)