2021 BPS Elections Now Open

Voting is open June 1 through August 1

June 2021 Bulletin

Highlights from this month.

Future of Professional Society Conferencing

Recently, Jennifer Pesanelli (Executive Officer), Dorothy Chaconas (Director of Meetings & Exhibits), and I attended the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Assembly of Society Officers to discuss the future of scientific meetings. Before the Assembly, we were asked to view pre-recorded content and read a report published by AIP entitled “The Future of Association Convening: Envisioning for The Sciences (FACETS).”

BPS Announces Max Olender as the 2021–2022 Congressional Fellow

This year, the Biophysical Society received more
Congressional Fellowship applications than in
any prior year. The Public Affairs Committee
responsible for reviewing the applications and
interviewing candidates, had a wide array of
outstanding scientists to choose from.

Know the Editor

Phil Nelson

Get to know Phil Nelson, an editor in The Biophysicist.

Biophysicist in Profile

Louise Hughes

Louise Hughes grew up in Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. None of her family worked in the scientific field, though her grandfather was an amateur scientist.

The Society is pleased to announce the 2021 slate of candidates for President-Elect and Council.

The two candidates for President-Elect are Taekjip Ha of Johns Hopkins University and Arthur G. Palmer III of Columbia University. The President-Elect will serve a one-year term, beginning February 2022, followed by a year as President, starting February 2023, and one subsequent year as Past-President, beginning in February 2024.

This year’s slate includes eight candidates for Council, shown below. The four members who are elected will each serve a three-year term beginning on February 22, 2022.

Full biographical information and candidate statements are available at www.biophysics.org/elections/bps-elections.

All Society members, including students, with 2021 dues paid by May 31, 2021, are eligible to vote. Eligible members may vote electronically through August 1, 2021, by means of the secure site found at www.biophysics.org/elections/bps-elections.

The Society is indebted to the Nominating Committee for developing the slate. The committee members were Jenny Ross (Chair), Zev Bryant, Laura Finzi, Helmut Grubmüller, Joseph Mindell, and David Piston.