Science 28Feb2020

SCIENCE sciencemag.org 28 FEBRUARY 2020 • VOL 367 ISSUE 6481 993

GENERAL ELECTION

President-Elect: Susan G. Amara, National
Institute of Mental Health/NIMH

Board of Directors: Cynthia M. Beall,
Case Western Univ.; Alondra Nelson,
Social Science Research Council/
I nstitute for Advanced Study

Committee on Nominations: Marlene
Belfort, Univ. at Albany, the State
Univ. of New York; John G. Hildebrand,
Univ. of Arizona; Michael Prather,
Univ. of California, Irvine; Esther
Takeuchi, Stony Brook Univ./Brookhaven
National Laboratory

SECTION ELECTIONS

Agriculture, Food, and

Renewable Resources

Chair-Elect: G. Philip Robertson,
Michigan State Univ.

Member-at-Large of the Section
Committee: Mary Ann Ottinger,
Univ. of Houston

Electorate Nominating Committee:
Sylvie M. Brouder, Purdue Univ.;
Catherine W. Ernst, Michigan State Univ.

Anthropology

Chair-Elect: George Robert Milner,
Pennsylvania State Univ.

Member-at-Large of the Section
Committee: Leslea J. Hlusko,
Univ. of California, Berkeley

2019 election results

Below are the results of the 2019 election. Terms begin on 17 February 2020.

understanding of the deadly organism.
Fraser also has served on editorial boards of scientific journals
and as a member of scientific, private, and public advisory boards,
including the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, for
which her policy-specific knowledge was sought to inform national
security concerns.
Among the numerous, prestigious awards Fraser has received
was election as a AAAS Fellow in 2004. A year later, she was recog-
nized as the world’s most highly cited microbiological researcher
over the previous decade, and she was elected to the National
Academy of Medicine in 2011.
TIGR research scientists who worked with Fraser praise the
support and freedom she provided them and underscore how her
approach helped launch their early research careers.
Elodie Ghedin, now a professor of biology and epidemiology at
New York University and a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship recipient,
said that Fraser encouraged exploration, free thinking, and team-
work, inspiration that prompted Ghedin to examine unexplored
topics during her time at TIGR. Fraser’s support contributed to the
work that earned Ghedin the MacArthur Fellowship, she said.
“What was incredible with Claire was if you were hungry and en-
thusiastic and had ideas for things, she would completely facilitate

things for you,” said Ghedin, describing how Fraser found research

funding for a novel investigation Ghedin wanted to pursue. “It was

an environment that really led to people carving out their own path.

Claire is really a leader...she’s hands-off, but at the same time, there

when you needed her.”

Fraser approaches her personal interests with a vigor equal to

the dedication she applies to her scientific work. She spends much

of her free time on Nantucket in Massachusetts near where she

grew up in the Boston suburb of Saugus, the daughter of “incred-

ibly supportive” parents—her mother an elementary school teacher

and father the principal of her local high school.

Over the past 5 years, her embrace of competitive ballroom

dancing reveals the depth of her determination even outside sci-

ence. Fraser trains up to four times a week getting ready for compe-

titions, and she participates in local and international events a few

times each year, as her work schedule permits.

She has two closets filled with costumes and drawers stuffed

with theatrical makeup and false eyelashes. Her husband, author

Jack Kammer, supports her and accompanies her to competitions.

Like science, ballroom dancing is an obsession. It is an activity

that fills her with joy. And like science, she knows that what you get

out of dancing is only as good as what you put in.

Electorate Nominating Committee:

Lyle W. Konigsberg, Univ. of Illinois

at Urbana-Champaign; Jada Benn

Torres, Vanderbilt Univ.

Astronomy

Chair-Elect: Anneila I. Sargent,

California Institute of Technology

Member-at-Large of the Section

Committee: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann,

Vanderbilt Univ.

Electorate Nominating Committee:

Catharine (Katy) Garmany, NSF’s

National Optical-Infrared Astronomy

Research Laboratory (Retired);

Rachel A. Osten, Space Telescope

Science Institute

Atmospheric and

Hydrospheric Sciences

Chair-Elect: Susan S. Hubbard,

Lawrence Berkeley National

Laboratory

Member-at-Large of the Section

Committee: Colette L. Heald,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Electorate Nominating Committee:

Sarah B. Kapnick, Geophysical Fluid

Dynamics Laboratory; Isabella

Velicogna, Univ. of California, Irvine

Council Delegate: Jennifer Francis,

Woods Hole Research Center

Biological Sciences

Chair-Elect: Nancy Jean Cox,

Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Center

Member-at-Large of the Section

Committee: Lara M. Kueppers,

Univ. of California, Berkeley

Electorate Nominating Committee:

Daniela Drummond-Barbosa,

Johns Hopkins Univ.; Pamela Geyer,

Univ. of Iowa

Council Delegate: Susan E. Celniker,

Lawrence Berkeley National

Laboratory; Carolyn M. Teschke,

Univ. of Connecticut

Chemistry

Chair-Elect: Peter K. Dorhout,

Kansas State Univ.

Member-at-Large of the Section

Committee: Julia Chan, The Univ.

of Texas at Dallas

Electorate Nominating Committee:

Barbara A. Baird, Cornell Univ.; Karen L.

Wooley, Texas A&M Univ.

Dentistry and Oral Health

Sciences

Chair-Elect: Ichiro Nishimura,

Univ. of California, Los Angeles

Member-at-Large of the Section

Committee: Nisha J. D’Silva,

Univ. of Michigan School of Dentistry

Electorate Nominating Committee:

Yang Chai, Univ. of Southern California;

Linda M. Kaste, Univ. of Illinois

at Chicago College of Dentistry

Council Delegate: Catherine E. Ovitt,

Univ. of Rochester School of Medicine

and Dentistry

Education

Chair-Elect: Melanie M. Cooper,

Michigan State Univ.

Member-at-Large of the Section

Committee: Maria Elizabeth Alvarez,

El Paso County Community College

Electorate Nominating Committee:

Jeffery P. Braden, North Carolina State

Univ.; Sandra S. West, Texas State Univ.

Council Delegate: Cynthia M. Bauerle,

James Madison Univ.; Kristin P. Jenkins,

BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, Inc.

Engineering

Chair-Elect: Jennifer Sinclair Curtis,

Univ. of California, Davis

Member-at-Large of the Section

Committee: Pramod P. Khargonekar,

Univ. of California, Irvine

Electorate Nominating Committee:

Lynnette D. Madsen*, National Science

Foundation (*serving in personal

capacity); Georgia Gina Tourassi, Oak

Ridge National Laboratory

Council Delegate: Jacqueline H. Chen,

Sandia National Laboratories

General Interest

in Science and Engineering

Chair-Elect: Erika C. Shugart,

American Society for Cell Biology

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