Scientific Program Committee
The AAAS Scientific Program Committee is charged with establishing the meeting theme and program tracks, reviewing proposals and selecting scientific sessions, topical lectures, and special sessions, as well as performing other functions deemed necessary to develop a scientific program for the AAAS Annual Meeting. The Association’s President and President-Elect are the Chair and Vice Chair, respectively, of the Committee, which is composed of 13 appointed members, reflecting the range of scientific disciplines of the AAAS membership.
Claire M. Fraser
AAAS President
Dean’s Endowed Professor, Director, Institute for Genome Sciences
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Lisa Chong
Editor, Insights
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Karen Emmorey
Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Director, Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience
San Diego State University
Joseph Francisco
President’s Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Frazier
Project Director
Exploratorium
Agustin Fuentes
Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Professor of Anthropology
University of Notre Dame
Maureen Kearney
Chief Program Officer
American Association for the Advancement of Science
James Kurose
Distinguished Professor, College of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Cindy Lee
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Stony Brook University
Edward Maibach
University Professor of Communication
Director, Center for Climate Change Communication
George Mason University
Denis-Didier Rousseau
Senior Research Scientist
Ecole Normale Supérieure CERES-ERTI & Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique
Yang Shao-Horn
W.M. Keck Professor of Energy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Stephanie Shipp
Deputy Director and Professor
Social and Decision Analytics Division
Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia
Joyce Wong
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering and an Inaugural Term Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
