Your institution and your institution's URL:
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Are you there with a specific scholarship or grant?
No

Duration of your stay in the U.S. (from - to):
In the US since 1996

Scientific Discipline and your current area of research:
Molecular and cellular biology, aging, genome stability

by Eleonora Windisch

President, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Contact:
Ginger Pinholster:
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Photo credit: Mark McCarty

Shirley Ann Jackson is a woman of astonishing ‘firsts’. As the newly elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a function that Dr. Jackson took over from Mary Ellen Avery in February 2004, she is a pioneer not only among women in general but among African American women and minorities in particular.

by Eleonora Windisch

Member, U.S. House of Representatives (R-New Hartford, New York)
Chairman of the House Science Committee
Washington, D.C.
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United States House of Representative Member Sherwood Boehlert has led the House Science Committee since January 2001. Mr. Boehlert, a graduate of Utica College, served as chief of staff for area Congressmen Alexander Pirnie and Donald Mitchell before being elected to represent Central New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982.