December 18 - Bruce Alberts, president emeritus of the National Academy of Sciences and former chair of the National Research Council (1993-2005), has been named by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to serve as editor in chief of its journal Science beginning March 1, 2008. Alberts, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, will become the 18th editor in chief of Science since its inception in 1880, and succeeds Donald Kennedy, also an NAS member, president emeritus of Stanford University, and former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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