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Ballots for the 2008 election of the AAAS president-elect, members of the Board of Directors and Committee on Nominations, and section officers will be mailed in October. If you do not receive a ballot by mid November, please contact José Arias in the AAAS Executive Office or by fax at 202-371-9526.
AAAS members have the opportunity to suggest nominees (including themselves) for president-elect and the Board of Directors for next year's election. See a list of this year's candidates below or see "AAAS News and Notes" in the 26 September issue of Science. Please send nominee's curriculum vitae no later than 26 October to:
José Arias
AAAS Executive Office
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
The 2008 AAAS election of general and section officers will be held in November. All members will receive a ballot for election of the president-elect, members of the Board of Directors, and members of the Committee on Nominations. Members registered in more than one section will receive ballots for elections for each section they are enrolled in.
Candidates for all offices are listed below. Additional names may be placed in nomination for any office by petition submitted to the Chief Executive Officer no later than 26 October. Petitions nominating candidates for president-elect, members of the Board, or members of the Committee on Nominations must bear the signatures of at least 100 members of the Association. Petitions nominating candidates for any section office must bear the signatures of at least 50 members of the section. A petition to place an additional name in nomination for any office must be accompanied by the nominee's curriculum vitae and statement of acceptance of nomination.
Biographical information for the following candidates will be enclosed with the ballots mailed to members in October.
Slate of Candidates General Election
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President: Alice Huang, California Institute of Technology; Harold Mooney, Stanford Univ.
Board of Directors: Jerry Melillo, Marine Biological Laboratory; Julia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories; David Sabatini, NYU Medical Center; Maria Elena Zavala, California State University, Northridge
Committee on Nominations: Steven Chu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Jack Dixon, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Jonathan Dordick, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Steven Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University; Paul Friedman, UCSD Medical Center; M.R.C. Greenwood, UC-Davis; Susan Hackwood, California Council on Science & Technology; Sallie Keller-McNulty, Rice University
Section Elections
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Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources
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Chair Elect: Harry Klee, Univ. of Florida; Brian Larkins, Univ. of Arizona
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Barbara Valent, Kansas State Univ.; Jeff Volenec, Purdue Univ.
Electorate Nominating Committee: Charles Brummer, Univ. of Georgia; Candace Haigler, North Carolina State Univ.; Ann Hirsch, UCLA; Mark Sorrells, Cornell Univ.
Council Delegate: Daniel Cosgrove, Pennsylvania State Univ.; Stanley Roux, Univ. of Texas, Austin
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Anthropology
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Chair Elect: Clark Larsen, Ohio State Univ.; Christopher Ruff, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Carol Ward, Univ. of Missouri; Sarah Williams-Blangero, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
Electorate Nominating Committee: Daniel Brown, Univ. of Hawaii; Dolores Piperno, Smithsonian Institute; Dawnie Wolfe Steadman, Binghamton Univ.; Anne C. Stone, Arizona State Univ.
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Astronomy
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Chair Elect: Alan P. Boss, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Mario Livio, Space Telescope Science Institute
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Jack O. Burns, Univ. of Colorado; Donald Campbell, National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center
Electorate Nominating Committee: Giovanni G. Fazio, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Arlo U. Landolt, Louisiana Univ.; James E. Neff, College of Charleston; Michael Werner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences
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Chair Elect: Alan Robock, Rutgers Univ.; Donald Wuebbles, Univ. of Illinois
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Leo Donner, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory; Kevin E. Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Electorate Nominating Committee: Jim Coakley, Oregon State Univ.; Qiang Fu, Univ. of Washington; Margaret (Peggy) Lemone, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Mark H. Thiemens, UCSD
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Biological Sciences
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Chair Elect: Trudy Mackay, North Carolina State Univ.; James R. Spotila, Univ. of Arkansas
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Nipam H. Patel, UC-Berkeley; Margaret Werner-Washburne, Univ. of New Mexico
Electorate Nominating Committee: Chris T. Amemiya, BRI, Virginia Mason Medical Ctr.; Joan W. Bennett, Rutgers Univ.; Judith Berman, Univ. of Minnesota; Eric Ursell Selker, Univ. of Oregon
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Chemistry
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Chair Elect: Charles Casey, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Dale Poulter, Univ. of Utah
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Peter Wipf, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Ronald Woodard, Univ. of Michigan College of Pharmacy
Electorate Nominating Committee: Jonathan Ellman, UC-Berkeley; Charles Craik, UC-San Francisco; Brian Stoltz, California Institute of Technology; Amos B. Smith, III, Univ. of Pennsylvania
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Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences
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Chair Elect: Francis Macrina, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.; Margarita Zeichner-David, Univ. of Southern California
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Richard Lamont, Univ. of Florida; Ira B. Lamster, Columbia Univ. College of Dental Medicine
Electorate Nominating Committee: Peter Ma, Univ. of Michigan School of Dentistry; Laurie McCauley, Univ. of Michigan School of Dentistry; Frank Scannapieco, School of Dental Medicine Univ. at Buffalo; Robert G. Quivey, Jr. , Univ. of Rochester
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Education
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Chair Elect: Joe Krajcik, Univ. of Michigan; Mary Nakkhleh, Perdue Univ.
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Angelo Collins, Knowles Science Teaching Foundation; Jay B. Labov, National Academy of Science
Electorate Nominating Committee: Mary Atwater, Univ. of Georgia; Linda Froschauer, Weston Public Schools; Jon D. Miller, Michigan State Univ.; Suzanne O'Connell, Wesleyan Univ.
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Engineering
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Chair Elect: H. Vincent Poor, Princeton Univ.; Duncan T. Moore, The Institute of Optics
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Christine Maziar, Univ. of Notre Dame; Jerome Schultz, UC-Riverside
Electorate Nominating Committee: Rena Bizios, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio; Kathy Ferrara, UC-Davis; Kristen Fichthorn, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Council Delegate: Jose Cruz, Ohio State Univ.; Gail H. Marcus, Consultant; James L. Merz, Univ. of Notre Dame; C.D. (Dan) Mote, Jr., Univ. of Maryland
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General Interest in Science and Engineering
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Chair Elect: Charles Lytle, North Carolina State Univ.; Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ohio State Univ.
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Sharon M. Friedman, Lehigh Univ.; Alexander Polonsky, Marine Hydrophysical Institute
Electorate Nominating Committee: Suzanne Gage Brainard, Univ. of Washington; Robert Griffin, Marquette Univ.; Marilee Long, Colorado State Univ.; Gloria J. Takahashi, La Habra High School
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Geology and Geography
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Chair Elect: Malcolm Hughes, Univ. of Arizona; Stephen Jackson, Univ. of Wyoming
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Sally P. Horn, Univ. of Tennessee; Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Georgia Institute of Technology
Electorate Nominating Committee: Elizabeth Canuel, College of William & Mary; Eugene Domack, Hamilton College; Timothy Fisher, Univ. of Toledo; David Stahle, Univ. of Arkansas
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History and Philosophy of Science
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Chair Elect: Richard Creath, Arizona State Univ.; Jeffery L. Sturchio, The Merck Company Foundation
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Robert Brandon, Duke Univ.; Heather Douglas, Univ. of Tennessee
Electorate Nominating Committee: Mark Largent, James Madison College; Nancy Nersessian, Georgia Institute of Technology; Peter Railton, Univ. of Michigan; Alain Touwaide, Smithsonian Institution
Council Delegate: Jane Maienschein, Arizona State Univ.; Virginia Trimble, UC-Irvine
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Industrial Science and Technology
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Chair Elect: Jennie C. Hunter-Cevera, Univ. of Maryland Biotechnology Institute; Vijayan Nair, Univ. of Michigan
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Manuel Gomez, Univ. of Puerto Rico; Harry S. Hertz, NIST
Electorate Nominating Committee: Robert Boily, Inforex Inc.; Qinghuang Lin, IBM; John Pizzonia, Fujifilm Life Science's Applications Laboratory; Harold Schonhorn, retired
Council Delegate: Orlando Auciello, Argonne National Laboratory; Steven Popper, The Rand Corporation
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Information, Computing, and Communication
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Chair Elect: Bart Selman, Cornell Univ.; Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Julia Gelfand, UC-Irvine; John (Jack) Hill, USGS
Electorate Nominating Committee: Christine Borgman, UCLA; Bonnie Carol, Information International Associates; Casimir Kulikowski, Rutgers Univ.; William Woods, ITA Software
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Linguistics and Language Science
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Chair Elect: David W. Lightfoot, Georgetown Univ.; Thomas Wasow, Stanford Univ.
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Suzanne Flynn, MIT; Mark Liberman, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Electorate Nominating Committee: William J. Poser, Yinka Dene Language Institute; Edward Stabler, UCLA; Elizabeth Traugott, Stanford Univ.; Douglas H. Whalen, Haskin Laboratories
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Mathematics
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Chair Elect: Kenneth Millett, UC-Santa Barbara; Williams Velez, Univ. of Arizona
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Tony F. Chan, National Science Foundation; Carl C. Cowen, Indiana University-Purdue University
Electorate Nominating Committee: Douglas Arnold, Univ. of Minnesota; Jonathan Borwein, Dalhousie Univ.; Wade Ellis, West Valley Community College; Robert M. Fossum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Medical Sciences
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Chair Elect: Gary A. Koretsky, Univ.of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Judy Lieberman, Harvard Medical School
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Robert Doms, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Rino Rappuoli, Chiron Corporation
Electorate Nominating Committee: Wendy Brown, Washington State Univ.; Beverly Davidson, Univ. of Iowa; Phil Greenberg, Univ. of Washington; Thomas B. Nutman, National Institutes of Health
Council Delegate: Etty (Tika) Benveniste, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham; Terence Dermody, Vanderbilt Univ.; James M. Hughes, Emory Univ.; Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, John Hopkins School of Public Health; Jennifer M. Puck, UC-San Francisco; Reed Pyeritz, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Gwendalyn J. Randolph, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Douglas Richman, UC-San Diego; Paul Rothman, Univ. of Iowa; Thomas Wellems, National Institutes of Health
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Neuroscience
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Chair Elect: Nominees to be announced
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Richard Huganir, John Hopkins Univ.; Gail Mandel, Oregon Health & Science Univ.
Electorate Nominating Committee: Erik D. Herzog, Washington Univ.; Frank LaFerla, UC-Irvine; Michael S. Wolfe, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital; Tony Wyss-Coray, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
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Pharmaceutical Science
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Chair Elect: Kenneth Thummel, Univ. of Washington; Gary Pollack, Univ. of North Carolina
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: William Beck, Univ. of Illinois; David Ross, Univ. of Colorado
Electorate Nominating Committee: Per Artursson, Uppsala Univ.; Kenneth Brouwer, Qualst; Donald E. Mager, Univ. at Buffalo; Craig K. Svensson, Purdue Univ.
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Physics
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Chair Elect: S. James Allen, UC-Santa Barbara; Charles W. Clark, NIST
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Richard F. Casten, Yale Univ.; Alexander L. Fetter, Stanford Univ.
Electorate Nominating Committee: Patrick D. Gallagher, NIST; Elizabeth H. Simmons, Michigan State Univ.; Michael Witherell, UC-Santa Barbara; Ali Yazdani, Princeton Univ.
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Psychology
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Chair Elect: Judy Deloache, Univ. of Virginia; Stephen Suomi, National Institutes of Health
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Randolph Blake, Vanderbilt Univ.; Jenny Saffran, Univ. of Wisconsin
Electorate Nominating Committee: Randall Engle, Georgia Tech; Denise Park, Univ. of Texas, Dallas; Barbara Rolls, Pennsylvania State Univ.; David Shapiro, UCLA
Council Delegate: Bennett I. Bertenthal, Indiana Univ.; John Gabrieli, MIT
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Social, Economic, and Political Sciences
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Chair Elect: Cora B. Marrett, National Science Foundation; Eugene Rosa, Washington State University
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Ronald J. Angel, Univ. of Texas, Austin; Wendy Baldwin, Population Council
Electorate Nominating Committee: Anil Deolalikar, UC-Riverside; Don C. Des Jarlais, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Howard Leventhal, Rutgers Univ.; Robert F. Rich, Univ. of Illinois
Council Delegate: Nicholas Christakis, Harvard Medical School; Guillermina Jasso, New York University
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Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering
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Chair Elect: Bruce Lewenstein, Cornell Univ.; Stephen D. Nelson, Virginia Tech. Univ.
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Kevin Finneran, Issues in Science and Technology; Melanie Leitner, Prize4Life
Electorate Nominating Committee: Lida Anestidou, The National Academies; Ezra Heitowit, Universities Research Association, Inc.; Robert M. Simon, US Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources; Michael L. Telson, Univ. of California System
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Statistics
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Chair Elect: Joel B. Greenhouse, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Jessica Utts, UC-Irvine
Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Charmaine Dean, BC Cancer Agency; Kenneth W. Wachter, UC-Berkeley
Electorate Nominating Committee: Paul P. Biemer, Univ. of North Carolina; May A. Foulkes, George Washington Univ.; Subir Ghosh, UC-Riverside; Nancy Reid, Univ. of Toronto
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