News from the National Academy of Sciences
February 13, 2019
National Academy of Sciences Elects Home Secretary and Councilors
WASHINGTON—The National Academy of Sciences has elected a home secretary and four members to serve on its governing Council.
Susan R. Wessler, distinguished professor of genetics and Neil and Rochelle Campbell Presidential Chair for Innovation in Science Education, University of California, Riverside, has been re-elected as home secretary. Wessler will continue to be responsible for the membership activities of the Academy during her third four-year term beginning July 1, 2019.
Councilors elected to three-year terms beginning July 1, 2019, are: Patricia Kuhl, co-director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences and the Bezos Family Foundation Professor of Early Childhood Learning, University of Washington; Richard E. Lenski, John Hannah Professor of Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University; Sean C. Solomon, director, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University; and Ruth J. Williams, distinguished professor of mathematics and Charles Lee Powell Chair in Mathematics I, University of California, San Diego. The new councilors succeed Susan G. Amara, Fred H. Gage, Evelyn L. Hu, and Laura L. Kiessling.
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