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ACS NEWS
Bonnie Charpentier is 2018 ACS president-elect Four other board director positions also filled
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Bonnie Charpentier, senior vice president for regulatory, quality, and safety at Cytokinetics, has been elected 2018 ACS president-elect by members of ACS. Charpentier will serve as president of the society in 2019 and immediate past-president in 2020; she will also serve on the board of directors during that time. With 8,037 votes, Charpentier won the race against Willie E. May, director of special research and training initiatives for the College of Computer, Mathematical & Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, who received 6,714 votes. The society, which publishes C&EN, also elected or reelected four other board directors. “I’m delighted, I’m very excited, and I am
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very grateful to members who reached Voting breakdown for 2017 ACS out to me during the campaign,” Charelections. pentier says. “Thank you for electing me, and thank you for being engaged. PRESIDENT-ELECT, 2018 TOTAL VOTES “I want to have stronger advocacy Bonnie A. Charpentier 8,037 programs for science and for education, Willie E. May 6,714 I want to increase industry and academia partnerships, and I want to make sure U.S. populati that we have employment initiatives that DIRECTOR, DISTRICT III, 2018–20a provide people with the information Teri Quinn Gray 1,166 they need,” she adds. “I want to have Alan B. Cooper 867 cooperation and collaboration across all parts of ACS and across the world.” In other election news, Teri Quinn DIRECTOR, DISTRICT VI, 2018–20a Gray, global technology integration Paul W. Jagodzonski 1,177 leader for DuPont Performance Materials, was elected director of DisRita R. Boggs 704 trict III, defeating Alan B. Cooper, head of chemistry at Bantam DIRECTOR-AT-LARGE, Pharmaceutical. 2018–20b ROUND 1 ROUND 2 ROUND 3 And incumbent Paul W. JaWayne E. Jones, Jr. 146 159 187 godzinski, dean of the College of Barbara A. Sawrey 101 120 159 Engineering, Forestry & Natural Bonnie (Helen A.) Lawlor 68 81 Sciences at Northern Arizona University and professor in the Kenneth P. Fivizzani 50 department of chemistry and biochemistry, was reelected director a Only ACS members in a given district vote for the district’s director. b Only ACS councilors vote for director-at-large. No of District VI, defeating Rita R. Boggs, CEO of American Research director-at-large candidate attained a majority (more than 50%) in rounds 1 and 2. Following the procedures for preferential voting & Testing. approved by the ACS Council, second-preference votes were Wayne E. Jones Jr., dean of distributed in subsequent rounds. engineering and physical sciences tion of Advanced Information Services. and professor of chemistry at the UniverIn total, 14,751 valid votes were cast for sity of New Hampshire, and Barbara A. president-elect. Voter participation for Sawrey, distinguished teaching professor president-elect was nearly 10% of all eligiin the department of chemistry and bioble voters. chemistry at the University of California, Additional information about the winSan Diego, were elected directors-at-large. ners can be found in the candidates’ stateThey won against Kenneth P. Fivizzani, ments (C&EN, Sept. 11, page 33).—LINDA retired from Nalco, and Bonnie (Helen A.) Lawlor, retired from the National FederaWANG NOVEMBER 6, 2017 | CEN.ACS.ORG | C&EN
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