Arthur I. Bienenstock, a proponent of openness in research and a former longtime director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, took office as vice president of the American Physical Society on 1 January. He will become president-elect in 2007 and president in 2008.

Ken Cole, special assistant to the executive officer of the APS, said this year’s slate of officers was rearranged slightly as a result of the death last August of John Bahcall, the society’s 2005 president-elect. John Hopfield, who was vice president at the time (see Physics Today, February 2005, page 80), replaced Bahcall as president-elect for the rest of the year and now serves as APS president for 2006. Leo Kadanoff was named president-elect for 2006 and becomes president in 2007.

The vice provost and dean of research and graduate policy at Stanford University, where he also holds a joint appointment at...

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