Santa Cruz chancellor president-elect of AAAS

17 Jun 2002

Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood of the University of California, Santa Cruz, a nationally recognized biologist, spokesperson for higher education, and an experienced voice in the arena of national scientific policy, has been chosen by her peers as the next president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Greenwood's one-year term as president-elect will start on February 19, immediately after the association's annual meeting in Seattle. She will become president in 1998, and then will chair the AAAS Board of Directors for one year beginning in 1999. Greenwood is the tenth woman--and the fourth consecutive woman--elected to lead AAAS in its 149-year history.

With 143,000 members and 300 affiliated science and engineering societies, AAAS is the world's largest general science organization. AAAS also publishes the prestigious weekly journal Science.