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By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu
Karen Holbrook, the University of Georgia’s senior vice president for academic affairs and  provost, has been elected to the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest general science organization in the world.
Holbrook is one of two new directors elected this academic year to the 13-member board. She will take office at the AAAS annual meeting in San Francisco in February and serve a four-year term.
With more than 138,000 members and 275 affiliated societies, the AAAS works to advance science and science education by providing authoritative information on current scientific developments and fostering communication among scientists, policy makers and the public.
The association, founded in 1848, publishes the respected journal Science and coordinates the activities of 24 sections that cover fields of science ranging from the physical, biological and health sciences to social, economic and applied sciences.
The board of directors includes five officers and eight directors who are elected by the general membership from candidates presented by a nominating committee. Board members are distinguished scientists who have national reputations in their areas of scientific expertise.
The president of the AAAS board for 2001 is Peter H. Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and an internationally known environmental authority. The immediate past president, who remains on the board, is Mary L. Good of Venture Capital Investors, LLC. Chosen as president-elect for 2002 is Scripps Research Institute scientist Floyd E. Bloom, a major architect of modern neuroscience. board for 2001 is Peter H. Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and an internationally known environmental authority.
The immediate past president, who remains on the board, is Mary L. Good of Venture Capital Investors, LLC. Chosen as president-elect for 2002 is Scripps Research Institute scientist Floyd E. Bloom, a major architect of modern neuroscience.
Holbrook has held leadership roles in a number of other national scientific and educational organizations, including serving on the executive committee of the American Association of Anatomists, the board of directors of the Society for Investigative Dermatology, and the advisory panel for biomedical research of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
She has been chair of the medical and scientific committee of the Dermatology Foundation and chair of the Council of Research Policy and Graduate Education for the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.
A trustee of Oak Ridge Associated Universities, she has served on advisory panels for the National Institutes of Health and the National Research Council. She was on the board of directors of the Council of Graduate Schools and has also been active in the American Association of Universities, serving on the Committee on Graduate Education and the executive committee of the Association of Graduate Schools.
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