MADELEINE JACOBS
At its June meeting last week in Elkridge, Md., the ACS Board of Directors appointed Joan E. Shields, professor of chemistry, Long Island University, C. W. Post campus (Brookville, N.Y.), to the Governing Board for Publishing (GBP), the body that oversees the operations of the Publications Division and Chemical Abstracts Service. Shields will serve a three-year term beginning July 1.
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To accept the appointment, Shields will resign from the ACS Board as a director-at-large effective June 30. Shields served on the board from 1989 to 1991 and from 1995 to the present; she was chair from 1996 to 1998. “I’ve enjoyed my tenure on the board and am still actively involved in numerous ACS governance committees, but I couldn’t give up this wonderful opportunity to serve the society in a different capacity,” she says. “I am looking forward to the challenges that come with the GBP in this electronic era. Serving as chair of the Joint Board-Council Committee on Publications has given me further insights into the task ahead.”
The Committee on Nominations & Elections will conduct a special election among ACS councilors in accordance with ACS bylaws to fill Shields’s remaining one-and-a-half-year term. C&EN will publish the slate of candidates and a timeline in a subsequent issue.
The board also reappointed Kathleen Case, publisher, American Association for Cancer Research, and Mary L. Good, dean, Donaghey College of Information Science & Systems Engineering, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, to the GBP for four-year terms beginning July 1.
