The Committee meets a minimum of once annually and is charged with helping the sections to play a more active role: improving communications between the sections, reviewing activities, procedures and policies as well as making recommendations for ways to improve the overall effectiveness of the sections. Twelve sections are represented at a given time (in three-year terms) and serve on the committee with the AAAS president and president-elect. Each year four sections rotate off and four new sections rotate on.
Committee Chair
President Susan Hockfield
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Committee Chair-Elect
President-elect Margaret Hamburg
National Academy of Sciences
Ending 2018 (3-year terms)
Geology and Geography (E)
Chair Philip Gingerich
University of Michigan
History and Philosophy of Science (L)
Secretary Melinda Gormley
University of California, Irvine
Agriculture, Food & Renewable Resources (O)
Secretary Dan Bush
Colorado State University
Linguistics and Language Sciences (Z)
Chair Jennifer Cole
University of Illinois
Ending 2019 (3-year terms)
Astronomy (D)
Chair Kathryn Flanagan
Space Telescope Science Institute
Engineering (M)
Chair-elect Deb Niemeier
University of California, Davis
Medical Sciences (N)
Chair Gregory Petsko
Brandeis University
Industrial Science and Technology (P)
Secretary Anice Anderson
Ending 2020 (3-year terms)
Biological Sciences (G)
Secretary Barbara Illman
U.S. Forest Service
Anthropology (H)
Secretary Karen Strier
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Education (Q)
Secretary Judith Dilts
James Madison University
General Interest in Science and Engineering (Y)
Chair-elect Katherine Rowan
George Mason University
Section Term Schedule
2011-2014 2012-2015 2013-2016 2014-2017 2015-2018 2016-2019
2017-2020 2018-2021 2019-2022 2020-2023 2021-2024 2022-2025
Section G Section A Section B Section C Section E Section D
Section H Section R Section J Section K Section L Section M
Section Q Section U Section T Section V Section O Section N
Section Y Section X Section S Section W Section Z Section P