An astronomy professor at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has taken office as president-elect of the American Astronomical Society.
John P. Huchra, the Robert O. and Holly Thomis Doyle Professor of Cosmology at Harvard University, where he is also senior adviser to the provost on research policy, assumed his role at the society’s annual meeting in May. He will serve as president-elect until 2008, when he becomes president for a two-year term, succeeding J. Craig Wheeler (see Physics Today, July 2005, page 73).
“I hope to … successfully represent the excitement of astronomy and the importance of basic research in astronomy and astrophysics to the public and to our government,” Huchra told Physics Today. “I hope to strengthen relationships between and among the community, the agencies responsible for federal funding of astronomy, and the government.”
Huchra’s research focus is observational cosmology, particularly the study of...
