Toufic M. Hakim, director of research and sponsored programs at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, has been named executive officer of the American Association of Physics Teachers, succeeding Bernard V. Khoury, who is retiring after 16 years at the organization’s helm.
Hakim, a longtime administrator and educator who has worked extensively in fundraising and public relations, will begin his new post on 5 September. He told Physics Today that his priorities will include boosting the society’s educational and other services to members and nonmembers, growing its membership—which currently totals 10 000—and redoubling its efforts to bring physics to the outside world and the general public.
“We do a lot of meaningful programs,” Hakim said, “and we are looking to enhance our position and services and to be able to articulate the positive changes that have been made to physics education over time.”
Hakim noted the relative paucity of...
