News from the National Academy of Sciences
February 27, 2014
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 of Neuroscience in the College of Science at the University of Arizona, Tucson, has been elected foreign secretary succeeding Michael T. Clegg. Hildebrand will be responsible for the international activities of the Academy during his four-year term beginning July 1, 2014.
Councilors elected to three-year terms beginning July 1, 2014, are: Karen S. Cook, Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology, Stanford University; Nancy A. Moran, professor, department of integrative biology, University of Texas, Austin; Margaret M. Murnane, fellow, JILA, and professor of physics, University Colorado, Boulder; and Randy Schekman, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor, department of molecular and cell biology, University of California, Berkeley. The new councilors succeed Carol A. Gross, Joyce Marcus, Douglas S. Massey, and Irving L. Weissman.
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