NOTICE: The next meeting of the AAAS Council will be held on July 22, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET via Zoom. Council members and their substitutes will be forwarded Zoom information. This meeting will take place to approve amendments to the AAAS organizational documents (Charter, Constitution, and Bylaws) as well as a suite of governance modernization proposals.
The Council, the member-elected governing body of AAAS, comprises the board of directors, section retiring chairs, delegates from each electorate, two delegates from the National Association of Academies of Sciences, and one delegate from each Regional Division with the president serving as the chair and the executive officer as the secretary. The Council’s responsibilities include election of Fellows, adoption of resolutions and statements on matters affecting the Association, election of affiliates, and approving amendments to the Bylaws.
Council Chair
Gilda A. Barabino
AAAS President
Secretary to the Council
Sudip Parikh
AAAS Chief Executive Officer
Members of the Board of Directors are also members of the Council.
Cammy Abernathy (Section P, *2022)
University of Florida
Tom Albright (Section V, *2022)
Salk Institute
Suzanne Anderson (Section E, 2023)
University of Colarado
Deanna M. Barch (Section J, 2023)
Washington University in St. Louis
Cynthia M. Bauerle (Section Q, 2023)
James Madison University
Pushpa Bhat (Section B, *2022)
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
James Bower (Pacific Division)
Southern Oregon University
Ed Buckler (Section O,*2022)
Cornell University
Bruce Bursten (Section C, *2022)
Worchester Polytechnic Institute
Susan E. Celniker (Section G, 2023)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Vicki Chandler (Section G, 2021)
Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute
Jacqueline H. Chen (Section M, 2023)
Sandia National Laboratories
Melanie M. Cooper (Section Q, 2023)
Michigan State University
Jonathan C. Coopersmith (Section L, 2023)
Texas A&M University
Susan N. Coppersmith (Section B, 2023)
University of New South Wales (Australia)/University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nancy Jean Cox (Section G,2023)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Jennifer Sinclair Curtis (Section M, 2023)
University of California, Davis
Channing J. Der (Section N, *2022)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nathaniel J. Dominy (Section H, *2022)
Dartmouth College
Lawrence K. Duffy (Arctic Division)
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Peter Faletra (NAAS)
New Hampshire Academy of Science
Mary Frank Fox (Section K, 2023)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jennifer Francis (Section W, 2023)
Woodwell Climate Research Center
David A. Frank (Section N, 2023)
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Francesca Grifo (Section X, 2023)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Heidi Hammel (Section D, *2022)
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
Carol Harding(Section E, *2022)
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Peter J. Houghton (Section S,2023)
The University of Texas Health Center at San Antonio
Susan S. Hubbard (Section W, 2023)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kristin P. Jenkins (Section Q, 2023)
The University of Texas at Austin
Don Jordan (NAAS)
University of South Carolina
Mary Kirchhof (Section C,*2022)
American Chemical Society (retired)
Benjamin Kuipers (Section T, 2023)
University of Michigan
Ed D. Lazowska (Section T, 2023)
University of Washington
Joceline Lega (Section A, *2022)
University of Arizona
Ernesto E. Marinero (Section P, 2023)
Purdue University
Randi C. Martin(Section Z, 2023)
Rice University
Ichiro Nishimura (Section R, 2023)
University of California, Los Angeles
Jeffrey L. Noebels (Section V, 2023)
Baylor College of Medicine
Ken Ono (Section A, 2023)
University of Virginia
Catherine E. Ovitt (Section R, 2023)
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Nancy Reid (Section U, 2023)
University of Toronto (Canada)
Melanie Roberts (Section X, 2023)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Anneila I. Sargent (Section D, 2023)
California Institute of Technology
Joan A. Sereno ( Section Z, 2023)
University of Kansas
Erika C. Shugart (Section Y, 2023 )
American Society for Cell Biology
Leonard A. Stefanski (Section U, 2023)
North Carolina State University
Anne Stone (Section H,*2022)
Arizona State University
Jennifer L. Tank (Section O, *2022)
University of Notre Dame
Carolyn M. Teschke (Section G, 2023)
University of Connecticut
Thea D. Tlsty (Section N, *2022)
University of California, San Francisco
JoAnn M. Valenti (Section Y, 2023)
Brigham Young University Emerita
Filipa Godoy Vitorino (Caribbean Division)
University of Puerto Rico
Judith R. Walters (Section V, 2023)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/National Institutes of Health
Patrick M. Woster (Section S, 2023)
Medical University of South Carolina
* Term ends December 31, 2022
COMMITTEE ON COUNCIL AFFAIRS
Gilda Barabino, AAAS President
Olin College and Engineering
David A. Baum (2022)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Susan K. Dutcher (2022)
Washington University in St. Louis
Emily M. Klein (2022)
Duke University
Joan R. Najita (2022)
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS
Susan Amara (2023) (Board Chair is Board appointee to the Committee)
NIMH/NIH (Dr. Amara is serving in her personal capacity)
Marlene Belfort (2022)
University at Albany, the State University of New York
Scott V. Edwards (2023)
Harvard University
John G. Hildebrand (2022)
University of Arizona
Ayanna M. Howard (2023)
Ohio State University College of Engineering
Muriel Poston (2023)
Claremont McKenna Colleges
Michael Prather (2022)
University of California, Irvine
Lucy Shapiro (2023)
Stanford University School of Medicine
Esther Takeuchi (2022)
Stony Brook University/Brookhaven National Laboratory