The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has named Bruce Alberts, president emeritus of the US National Academy of Sciences and chair of the National Research Council (1993-2005), as editor-in-chief of its journal Science, effective March 1, 2008. Alberts will be the 18th editor-in-chief of Science since its inception in 1880.
In his new position, Alberts will oversee both the journal's staff of Ph.D.-level editors, directed by Executive Editor Monica Bradford, and Science's award-winning team of science journalists, headed by long-time News Editor Colin Norman. He succeeds Donald Kennedy, president emeritus of Stanford University and a former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, who announced his retirement in June 2007. Kennedy will remain editor-in-chief of the journal through the end of February 2008.
To choose the new editor-in-chief, the AAAS Board of Directors formed a selection committee of top scientists, chaired by AAAS President and Nobel laureate David Baltimore. Following an international search, the AAAS Board unanimously agreed December 14 to invite Alberts to serve as editor-in-chief, and he accepted the post.
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