Nobel Laureate Peter Agre to Serve As AAAS President-Elect

Nobel laureate Peter C. Agre, a chemist and Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology at Duke University School of Medicine, has been chosen to serve as president-elect of AAAS beginning 19 February, at the close of the 2008 Annual Meeting in Boston. Agre would assume the presidency of AAAS in February 2009.Agre shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of aquaporins, the key proteins that transport water across cell membranes. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, chair of the NAS Committee on Human Rights and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

On 19 February, the current president-elect, James J. McCarthy, will begin a one-year term as AAAS president. McCarthy is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University. The current president, David Baltimore, will begin a one-year term as chairman of the AAAS Board of Directors at the close of the Annual Meeting. Baltimore is the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology and head of the Baltimore Lab at the California Institute of Technology

Here are the full election results, with all terms starting at the end of the year’s Annual Meeting in February:

General Offices President-Elect: Peter C. Agre Board of Directors: Nancy Knowlton, Thomas A. Woolsey Committee on Nominations: Diana Hicks, Karen A. Holbrook, Peter H. Raven, Lydia Villa-Komaroff Section on Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources Chair-Elect: Daniel Bush Member-at-Large: Sally Mackenzie Electorate Nominating Committee: Pamela J. Green, Charles W. Rice Section on Anthropology Chair-Elect: Michael A. Little Member-at-Large: Dennis H. O’Rourke Electorate Nominating Committee: William R. Leonard, Karen R. Rosenberg Section on Astronomy Chair-Elect: Steven V. W. Beckwith Member-at-Large: Nancy D. Morrison Electorate Nominating Committee: Lynn R. Cominsky, William S. Smith, Jr. Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences Chair-Elect: Margaret Leinen Member-at-Large: Eugenia Kalnay Electorate Nominating Committee: Syukuro Manabe, Terry Whitledge Council Delegate: Claire L. Parkinson Section on Biological Sciences Chair-Elect: Barbara L. Illman Member-at-Large: Diana G. Myles Electorate Nominating Committee: Michael W. Nachman, Baldomero “Toto” Olivera Section on Chemistry Chair-Elect: Geraldine Richmond Member-at-Large: Peter B. Armentrout Electorate Nominating Committee: Alison Butler, Mark A. Ratner Section on Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences Chair-Elect: Huw F. Thomas Member-at-Large: Susan W. Herring Electorate Nominating Committee: Mark W. Lingen, Janet Moradian-Oldak Council Delegate: Jacques E. Nör Section on Education Chair-Elect: Judith A. Dilts Member-at-Large: Robert Tinker Electorate Nominating Committee: Judy Diamond, Susan H. Hixson Council Delegate: Rodger W. Bybee Section on Engineering Chair-Elect: Robert M. Nerem Member-at-Large: Cristina H. Amon Electorate Nominating Committee: Kristi S. Anseth, Cindy Atman Section on General Interest in Science and Engineering Chair-Elect: Charles N. Haas Member-at-Large: Erika C. Shugart Electorate Nominating Committee: Joann Ellison Rodgers, John L. Safko, Sr. Council Delegate: Julie Ann Miller Section on Geology and Geography Chair-Elect: Susan Trumbore Member-at-Large: Jill S. Baron Electorate Nominating Committee: Kam-biu Liu, Ellen Mosley-Thompson Section on History and Philosophy of Science Chair-Elect: Alan J. Rocke Member-at-Large: Paul Lawrence Farber Electorate Nominating Committee: Rachelle D. Hollander, Phillip R. Sloan Section on Industrial Science and Technology Chair-Elect: S. Tom Picraux Member-at-Large: Ray H. Baughman Electorate Nominating Committee: Tingye Li, Robert W. Sprague Section on Information, Computing, and Communication Chair-Elect: Edward D. Lazowska Member-at-Large: Benjamin Kuipers Electorate Nominating Committee: James D. Foley, Clifford A. Lynch Council Delegate: Lewis M. Branscomb Section on Linguistics and Language Science Chair-Elect: Annie Zaenen Member-at-Large: Mark Aronoff Electorate Nominating Committee: Joan Maling, Sally McConnell-Ginet Council Delegate: Keren Rice Section on Mathematics Chair-Elect: Keith Devlin Member-at-Large: Warren Page Electorate Nominating Committee: Harold P. Boas, Deborah F. Lockhart Section on Medical Sciences Chair-Elect: Christine A. Biron Member-at-Large: R. Arlene H. Sharpe Electorate Nominating Committee: Harry B. Greenberg, Margaret K. Hostetter Section on Neuroscience Chair-Elect: Mahlon R. DeLong Member-at-Large: Hollis T. Cline Electorate Nominating Committee: Rosemarie Booze, Charles D. Gilbert Section on Pharmaceutical Sciences Chair-Elect: William E. Evans Member-at-Large: C. Anthony Hunt Electorate Nominating Committee: F. Douglas Boudinot, Günter Hochhaus Council Delegate: Patrick J. Sinko Section on Physics Chair-Elect: Bill R. Appleton Member-at-Large: Gene D. Sprouse Electorate Nominating Committee: Robert P. Redwine, Antoinette (Toni) Taylor Section on Psychology Chair-Elect: Edward Taub Member-at-Large: Susan Goldin-Meadow Electorate Nominating Committee: Jeffrey R. Alberts, Jeri S. Janowsky Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences Chair-Elect: Karen S. Cook Member-at-Large: Judith M. Tanur Electorate Nominating Committee: Henry E. Brady, Nancy M. Gordon Section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering Chair-Elect: Dan Kammen Member-at-Large: Kerri-Ann Jones Electorate Nominating Committee: Thomas Dietz, Michele Garfinkel Council Delegate: Robert Cook-Deegan Section on Statistics Chair-Elect: W. Michael O’Fallon Member-at-Large: Randall K. Spoeri Electorate Nominating Committee: Joseph L. Gastwirth, Fritz Scheuren Council Delegate: David L. DeMets