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
Margaret Hamburg
AAAS President
Secretary to the Council
Rush D. Holt
AAAS Chief Executive Officer
Members of the Board of Directors are also members of the Council.
Edwin (Ted) Abel
University of Iowa
Cammy Abernathy
University of Florida
Lisa Ainsworth
USDA-ARS/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado
Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Sankar Basu
National Science Foundation
Stephen B. Baylin
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Alan R. Bishop
Los Alamos National Laboratory
James M. Bower
Pacific Division
Bonnie C. Carroll
Information International Associates/CENDI
Vivian G. Cheung
Howard Hughes Medical Institute/University of Michigan
Sandra Chung
University of California, Santa Cruz
Karen S. Cook
Stanford University
Bruce H. Corliss
University of Rhode Island
E. Dan Dahlberg
University of Minnesota
Ronald L. Davis
Scripps Research Institute
Louis A. Derry
Cornell University
Carol Dieckmann
University of Arizona
Mary C. Dinauer
Washington University School of Medicine
Lawrence K. Duffy
Arctic Division
Jonathan A. Eisen
University of California, Davis
Peter Faletra
New Hampshire Academy of Science, Inc.
Kathryn Flanagan
Space Telescope Science Institute
James R. Fleming
Colby College
Teresa Fryberger
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Karen I. Goldberg
University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth S. Haswell
Washington University in St. Louis
Melissa A. Hines
Cornell University
Barbara A. Jones
IBM Almaden Research Center
Don M. Jordan
University of South Carolina, Columbia
Linda P. B. Katehi
University of California, Davis
Henry Kautz
University of Rochester
Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Joan Kleypas
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Chryssa Kouveliotou
George Washington University
Jay B. Labov
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (Retired)
Julia Lane
New York University
Clark Spenser Larsen
Ohio State University
Enrique J. Lavernia
University of California, Irvine
Bruce V. Lewenstein
Cornell University
James L. McClelland
Stanford University
Juan C. Meza
University of California, Merced
Janet Moradian-Oldak
University of Southern California
Nancy J. Nersessian
Harvard University
Nora S. Newcombe
Temple University
Norine E. Noonan
University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Lynne A. Opperman
Texas A&M University College of Dentistry
Gregory A. Petsko
Weill Cornell Medical College
Linda Petzold
University of California, Santa Barbara
Muriel E. Poston
Pitzer College
Jennifer Poulakidas
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Catherine M. Pringle
University of Georgia
Juan Ramírez-Lugo
Caribbean Division
Nancy Reid
University of Toronto (Canada)
Ian M. Robertson
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kathryn Roeder
Carnegie Mellon University
Susan M. Rosenberg
Baylor College of Medicine
Susan R. Ross
University of Pennsylvania
Joan Sereno
University of Kansas
Jennifer L. Tank
University of Notre Dame
Richard E. Taylor
University of Notre Dame
JoAnn M. Valenti
Brigham Young University Emeritus
Carol V. Ward
University of Missouri
Lynn Wecker
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
Diane E. Wickland
NASA (retired)
COMMITTEE ON COUNCIL AFFAIRS
Steven Chu, AAAS President-Elect and CCA Chair
Stanford University
Margaret A. Hamburg, AAAS President
National Academy of Medicine
Carol Dieckmann (2019)
University of Arizona
Chryssa Kouveliotou (2019)
George Washington University
Jay Labov (2020)
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (Retired)
Juan Meza (2019)
University of California, Merced
Lynne Opperman (2020)
Texas A&M University College of Dentistry
Ian M. Robertson (2020)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Susan Rosenberg (2019)
Baylor College of Medicine
Diane E. Wickland (2020)
NASA (retired)
COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS
Sallie (Penny) Chisholm (2020)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeffrey I. Gordon (2020)
Washington University School of Medicine
Patricia Falcone (2019)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Mary Frank Fox (2020)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Margaret Leinen (2019)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
Amita Sehgal (2020)
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Shirley M. Tilghman (2019)
Princeton University
Elias Zerhouni (2019)
Sanofi, Inc.