News from the National Academy of Sciences

February 21, 2018

National Academy of Sciences Elects Foreign Secretary and Councilors

WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Sciences has elected a foreign secretary and four members to serve on its governing Council.

John G. Hildebrand, Regents Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, College of Science, University of Arizona, has been re-elected as foreign secretary. Hildebrand will continue to be responsible for the international activities of the Academy during his second four-year term beginning July 1, 2018.

Councilors elected to three-year terms beginning July 1, 2018, are: S. James Gates, Jr., Ford Foundation Professor of Physics and Affiliate Professor of Mathematics, Department of Physics, Brown University; Caroline S. Harwood, Gerald and Lyn Grinstein Endowed Professor in Microbiology, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington; Barbara J. Meyer, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley; and Zena Werb, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco. The new councilors succeed Sylvia T. Ceyer, Jeffrey M. Friedman, Susan Hanson, and Peter S. Kim.

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