FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | December 19, 2016
American Chemical Society announces 2017 officers
WASHINGTON, December 19, 2016 — The American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society, has announced its officers for 2017.
Chair, ACS Board of Directors
Pat N. Confalone, Ph.D., independent consultant and retired vice president of DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware
ACS President
Allison A. Campbell, Ph.D., associate laboratory director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington
ACS President-Elect
Peter K. Dorhout, Ph.D., vice president for research, Kansas State University
Immediate Past President
Donna J. Nelson, Ph.D., organic chemistry professor, University of Oklahoma, Norman
Directors
Christina C. Bodurow, Ph.D., senior director of external sourcing in the medicines development unit at Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis
Lee H. Latimer, Ph.D., head of chemistry at NeurOp Inc., Oakland, California
Rigoberto Hernandez, Ph.D., Gompf Family Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Barbara A. Sawrey, Ph.D., dean for undergraduate education and a distinguished teaching professor of chemistry, University of California, San Diego
Ingrid Montes, Ph.D., assistant dean, Graduate Studies and Research Program, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan
Paul W. Jagodzinski, Ph.D., dean, college of engineering, forestry and natural sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
William F. Carroll, Jr., Ph.D., adjunct professor of chemistry, Indiana University, and principal of Carroll Applied Science, LLC, Dallas, Texas
Laura E. Pence, Ph.D., professor of chemistry, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut
John E. Adams, Ph.D., curators’ teaching professor emeritus, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Dorothy J. Phillips, Ph.D., retired chemist from Waters Corporation, Natick, Massachusetts
Kathleen M. Schulz, Ph.D., president, Business Results Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico
Thomas M. Connelly, Jr., Ph.D., executive director and CEO, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC
Other top officers include:
Secretary
Flint H. Lewis, secretary, ACS board of directors and council; and ACS general counsel, Arlington, Virginia
Treasurer
Brian A. Bernstein, ACS treasurer and chief financial officer, Alexandria, Virginia
The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. With nearly 157,000 members, ACS is the world’s largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
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