Susan Hockfield chosen to serve as AAAS president-elect
The following is adapted from a press release issued today by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Susan Hockfield, president emerita of MIT, has been chosen to serve as president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She will begin her three-year term as an officer and member of the Executive Committee of the AAAS Board of Directors on Feb. 16, 2016, at the conclusion of the 182nd AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington. Hockfield served as president of MIT from 2004 to 2012 and continues to hold a faculty appointment as professor of neuroscience and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. Hockfield, whose research focuses on the development of the brain and on glioma, a deadly form of brain cancer, pioneered the use of monoclonal antibody technology in brain research. As president of MIT, she oversaw the launch of numerous scientific initiatives, including the...