AAAS President-Elect Margaret Hamburg | Amy Hart
Margaret Hamburg, the foreign secretary of the National Academy of Medicine, has been chosen to serve as president-elect of AAAS. She will begin her three-year term as an officer and member of the Executive Committee of the AAAS Board of Directors at the conclusion of the 183rd AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston on Feb. 21, 2017.
“More than ever before, society depends on the science and technology that undergird almost all aspects of our lives and will drive the innovations needed to address many of the most pressing problems before us, such as disease, poverty, food and water scarcity, climate change and global security,” Hamburg said in her candidacy statement.
“As the world’s largest general scientific membership society, the AAAS must continue to distinguish itself as a vital voice for science through clear and convincing communication about the process, progress and promise of science for an array of audiences,” she said.
Prior to joining the National Academy of Medicine in 2015, Hamburg served for six years as the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. From 2001 to 2009, she worked for the Nuclear Threat Initiative, first as vice president for biological programs, then as senior scientist. In 1997, President Bill Clinton named Hamburg assistant secretary for planning and evaluation in the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to that, Hamburg was New York City’s health commissioner.
A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Hamburg conducted research on neuroscience at Rockefeller University, studied neuropharmacology at the National Institute of Mental Health and conducted HIV/AIDS policy and research as assistant director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Hamburg has been a member of AAAS since 1988 and was named an elected fellow in 1995.
“Peggy brings to AAAS a distinguished career in science and, importantly, a sophisticated understanding of the many significant challenges facing today’s world that call for sustained contributions from those in the world of science and technology, a world she understands,” said Rush Holt, CEO of AAAS and executive publisher of the Science family of journals. “Scientific and technological innovations and proven approaches promise to deliver solutions.”
Victor J. Dzau, president of the National Academy of Medicine, called Hamburg’s election “a testament to her decades of remarkable leadership and service to her field. Throughout her career, she has worked to advance the principle that effective policy must be rooted in strong scientific evidence.” Dzau added, “AAAS will benefit immensely, as the NAM has, from her dedication and vision.”
AAAS’ current president-elect, Susan Hockfield, will begin her term as AAAS president at the close of the 2017 Annual Meeting. Hockfield is the president emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The current president, Barbara Schaal, will become chair of the AAAS Board of Directors. Schaal is a professor of biology and the dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
General Election
President-Elect: Margaret A. Hamburg, National Academy of Medicine
Board of Directors: Sylvester James Gates, Jr., University of Maryland, College Park; Kaye Husbands Fealing, Georgia Institute of Technology
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:
Ronald J. Angel, University of Texas at Austin
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)