News from the National Academy of Sciences
February 5, 2015
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 in the department of botany and plant sciences at the 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 second four-year term beginning July 1, 2015.
Councilors elected to three-year terms beginning July 1, 2015, are: Sylvia T. Ceyer, head, department of chemistry, and J.C. Sheehan Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jeffrey M. Friedman, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Marilyn M. Simpson Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, The Rockefeller University; Susan Hanson, Distinguished University Professor Emerita, School of Geography, Clark University; and Peter S. Kim, member, Stanford ChEM-H and Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine. The new councilors succeed R. James Cook, Richard Lifton, Rowena Matthews, and Maria Zuber.
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