Sections and Committees Details
VAS Council
Description:
Council shall be composed of the President, the President Elect, the Vice President, the Secretary, the Treasurer, the three most recent Past Presidents and one member elected by each Section of the Virginia Academy of Science. Members from the Sections shall be elected for three year terms on a rotational basis among the Sections, provided the initial term of a member from a newly established Section shall be specified by Council. In addition to the foregoing, the Chairs of the Standing Committees, the Editor of The Virginia Journal of Science, the Editor of Virginia Scientists, the official Academy Representative to the Board of Trustees of the Science Museum of Virginia, the official representative of the Academy to the American Association for Advancement of Science and National Association of Academies of Science, the Director of the Visiting Scientists Program, and the Director of the Virginia Junior Academy of Science shall be members of Council. In event of vacancies, the President shall make interim appointments until the next election is held; provided however, vacancies of elected officers shall be filled as hereafter provided.
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Sections and Committees Member Information
Chris Osgood
(President, Chair of Publications Committee, Editor of The Virginia Journal of Science)
Robert Wright
(Chair of Archives Committee)
Shalini Upadhyaya
(Chair of Committee on the Environment)
Deborah Neely-Fisher
(Chair of Nominations and Elections Committee, Past President, Chair of Fundraising Committee, Counc)
Christopher Berndsen
(Chair of Research Committee)
Dr Michael Wolyniak
(Chair of Science Education Committee)
Elsa Falls
(Chair of Trust Committee, Representative to the Board of Trustees of the Science Museum of Virginia)
Woodward Bousquet
(Chair of Virginia Flora Committee)
Marco Aldi
(Councilor from Astronomy, Math & Physics)
Prof Parrish Waters
(Councilor from Biology, Past President)
Thomas Haas
(Councilor from Biomedical & General Engineering)
Conley McMullen
(Councilor from Botany, Past President)
Randall Reif
(Councilor from Structural Biology, Biochemistry & Biophysics)
Susan Booth
(Director of the Virginia Junior Academy of Science, Chair of Junior Academy of Science Committee, A)
Jonathon Tolbert
(Executive Officer)
Craig Group
(President-Elect, Chair of Membership Committee)
Melani Loney
(Secretary)
Rose Basom
(SMV Representative to VAS Council (non-voting))
Robin Curtis
(Treasurer, Associate Director of the Virginia Junior Academy of Science)
Matthew Brynteson
(Vice President)
Peter Njoki
Silvina Pagola
Iordanka Panayotova