AAAS is proud to announce its officers for 2016. These leadership roles include, President-Elect, members of the Board of Directors, the Committee on Nominations, and the officers for the 24 sections. Elections were held from October 19 to November 16, 2015. The new officers will begin their terms on February 16, 2016.
To read more about the new officers go to AAAS.org.
Congratulations to all!
Here are your 2016 officers:
President-Elect
Susan Hockfield, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Board of Directors
Cynthia M. Beall, Case Western Reserve University
May R. Berenbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Committee on Nominations
| Alice M. Clark, University of Mississippi | Susan L. Graham, University of California, Berkeley |
| William H. Press, University of Texas at Austin | Peter H. Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden |
Section Elections
Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources
| Chair Elect: Lisa Ainsworth, USDA-ARS/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Mel Oliver, University of Missouri |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: C. Robin Buell, Michigan State University | Neelima Roy Sinha, University of California, Davis |
Anthropology
| Chair Elect: Carol V. Ward, University of Missouri School of Medicine | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Steven R. Leigh, University of Colorado Boulder |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: J. Josh Snodgrass, University of Oregon Deborah Winslow, National Science Foundation |
Council Delegate: Clark Spencer Larsen, Ohio State University |
Astronomy
| Chair Elect: Kathryn Flanagan, Space Telescope Science Institute | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Steven D. Kawaler, Iowa State University |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Tom Abel, Stanford University/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory David R. Soderblom, Space Telescope Science Institute |
Council Delegate: Chryssa Kouveliotou, George Washington University |
Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences
| Chair Elect:Joan Kleypas, National Center for Atmospheric Research | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Drew T. Shindell, Duke University |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Rob Jackson, Stanford University Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Biological Sciences
| Chair Elect: Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg, Donald Danforth Plant Center | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Marisa S. Bartolomei, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Marnie E. Halpern, Carnegie Institution for Science Mary Ann Moran, University of Georgia |
Council Delegate (1-year term): James R. Broach, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine Jessica Gurevitch, Stony Brook University |
| Council Delegate (2-year term): Jennifer Jane Loros, Dartmouth College Ann K. Sakai, University of California, Irvine |
Council Delegate (3-year term): Carol Dieckmann, University of Arizona Susan M. Rosenberg, Baylor College of Medicine Susan R. Ross, University of Pennsylvania |
Chemistry
| Chair Elect: Karen I. Goldberg, University of Washington | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Judith N. Burstyn, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Michelle Chang, University of California, Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Northwestern University/Argonne National Laboratory |
Council Delegate (1-year term): Nancy E. Levinger, Colorado State University |
| Council Delegate (2-year term): Seth M. Cohen, University of California, San Diego | Council Delegate (3-year term): Melissa A. Hines, Cornell University |
Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences
| Chair Elect: Janet Moradian-Oldak, University of Southern California | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Thomas E. Van Dyke, Forsyth Institute/Harvard University |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Renny T. Franceschi, University of Michigan Mary MacDougall, University of Alabama at Birmingham |
Education
| Chair Elect: Muriel E. Poston, Pitzer College | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Ann Reid, National Center for Science Education |
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Electorate Nominating Committee: John R. Jungck, University of Delaware |
Engineering
| Chair Elect: Linda P.B. Katehi, University of California, Davis | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Nadine Aubry, Northeastern University |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Nancy Jackson, Sandia National Laboratories Robert M. Kelly, North Carolina State University |
General Interest in Science and Engineering
| Chair Elect: Bruce V. Lewenstein, Cornell University | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Erica Goldman, COMPASS |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Barbara Gastel, Texas A&M University Erika C. Shugart, American Society for Microbiology |
Geology and Geography
| Chair Elect: Bruce H. Corliss, University of Rhode Island | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Paul A. Baker, Duke University |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Laurie C. Anderson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Frank W. Davis, University of California, Santa Barbara |
Council Delegate: Louis A. Derry, Cornell University |
History and Philosophy of Science
| Chair Elect: Nancy J. Nersessian, Georgia Institute of Technology | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Alan C. Love, University of Minnesota |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Marsha L. Richmond, Wayne State University Rose-Mary Sargent, Merrimack College |
Industrial Science and Technology
| Chair Elect: Enrique J. Lavernia, University of California, Irvine | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Thomas Zacharia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/UT-Batelle, LLC |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Stephen P. Long, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Stuart Parkin, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg/Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics (Germany) |
Information, Computing, and Communication
| Chair Elect: Henry Kautz, University of Rochester | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Carla E. Brodley, Northeastern University |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Vasant G. Honavar, Pennsylvania State University Adele F. Howe, Colorado State University |
Linguistics and Language Science
| Chair Elect: Joan A. Sereno, University of Kansas | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Colin Phillips, University of Maryland, College Park |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Danny Fox, Massachusettes Institute of Technology Louise McNally, Pompeu Fabra University (Spain) |
Mathematics
| Chair Elect: Linda Petzold, University of California, Santa Barbara | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Arizona State University |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Charles L. Epstein, University of Pennsylvania Ilse Ipsen, North Carolina State University |
Council Delegate: Juan C. Meza, University of California, Merced |
Medical Sciences
| Chair Elect: Gregory A. Petsko, Weill Cornell Medical College | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Arlene H. Sharpe, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Paul A. Insel, University of California, San Diego Juanita L. Merchant, University of Michigan Medical School |
Council Delegate: Mary C. Dinauer, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis |
Neuroscience
| Chair Elect: Edwin (Ted) Abel, University of Pennsylvania |
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Vivian Budnik, University of Massachusetts Medical School |
| Kristen M. Harris, University of Texas at Austin John H. Morrison, University of California, Davis |
Council Delegate: Ronald L. Davis, Scripps Research Institute |
Pharmaceutical Sciences
| Chair Elect: Lynn Wecker, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: John S. Lazo, University of Virginia |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Catherine E. Peishoff, GlaxoSmithKline Rick G. Schnellmann, Medical University of South Carolina |
Physics
| Chair Elect: Barbara A. Jones, IBM Almaden Research Center | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Andrew Millis, Columbia University |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Sally Dawson, Brookhaven National Laboratory P. Chris Hammel, Ohio State University |
Council Delegate (2-year term): Nora Berrah, University of Connecticut |
| Council Delegate (3-year term): E. Dan Dahlberg, University of Minnesota |
Psychology
| Chair Elect: Nora S. Newcombe, Temple University | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Patricia K. Kuhl, University of Washington |
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Electorate Nominating Committee: Susan C. Levine, University of Chicago |
Social, Economic, and Political Sciences
| Chair Elect: Julia Lane, New York University |
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Ronald D. Lee, University of California, Berkeley |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Virginia S. Cain, National Center for Health Statistics/Center for Disease Control & Prevention Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota |
Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering
| Chair Elect: Norine E. Noonan, University of South Florida St. Petersburg | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: David Goldston, Natural Resource Defense Council |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Kathie L. Olsen, ScienceWorks International, LLC Paula J. Olsiewski, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
Statistics
| Chair Elect: Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University | Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Arlene S. Ash, University of Massachusetts Medical School |
| Electorate Nominating Committee: Kim-Anh Do, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Katherine Bennett Ensor, Rice University |