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Dr. Alan I. Leshner
Physiological Psychology
A.S., Franklin and Marshall College, 1965
M.S., Rutgers University, 1967
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1969 |
Dr. Alan I. Leshner has been Chief Executive Officer of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science and Executive Publisher of the journal Science since
December 2001. AAAS (triple A-S) was founded in 1848 and is the world's largest,
multi-disciplinary scientific and engineering society.
Before coming to AAAS, Dr. Leshner was Director of the National Institute on Drug
Abuse (NIDA) from 1994-2001. One of the scientific institutes of the U.S. National
Institutes of Health, NIDA supports over 85 percent of the world's research on the health
aspects of drug abuse and addiction.
Before becoming Director of NIDA, Dr. Leshner had been the Deputy Director and
Acting Director of the National Institute of Mental Health. He went to NIMH from the
National Science Foundation (NSF), where he held a variety of senior positions, focusing
on basic research in the biological, behavioral and social sciences, science policy and
science education.
Dr. Leshner went to NSF after 10 years at Bucknell University, where he was
Professor of Psychology. He has also held long-term appointments at the Postgraduate
Medical School in Budapest, Hungary; at the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center;
and as a Fulbright Scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Dr. Leshner
is the author of a major textbook on the relationship between hormones and behavior, and
has published over 150 papers for both the scientific and lay communities on the biology
of behavior, science and technology policy, science education, and public engagement with
science.
Dr. Leshner received an undergraduate degree in psychology from Franklin and Marshall
College, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physiological psychology from Rutgers University.
He also holds honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Franklin and Marshall College and the
Pavlov Medical University in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Dr. Leshner is an elected fellow of AAAS, the National Academy of Public
Administration, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and many other professional
societies. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of
Science.
The U.S. President appointed Dr. Leshner to the National Science Board in 2004,
and he represents AAAS on the U.S. Commission for UNESCO.
April 2006
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