Barry Barish elected next APS Vice President

American Physical Society members have elected Barry Barish, Linde Professor of Physics Emeritus at Caltech, as the Society’s next vice president. Barish will assume the office in January 2009. At the same time, Curtis Callan of Princeton University will become president-elect, and Cherry Murray of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will serve as APS president for 2009, succeeding 2008 APS president Arthur Bienenstock of Stanford University. Barish will be president-elect in 2010, and will serve as APS president in 2011.In other election results, Kate Kirby of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics was selected as the new chair-elect of the APS Nominating Committee, which has the responsibility of selecting a slate of candidates each year to run for APS office. Nergis Mavalvala, a professor of physics at MIT, and Jorge Pullin, Horace Hearne Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Louisiana State University, were elected as general councilors.