Congressman Rush D. Holt, Ph.D., who will retire from the U.S. House of Representatives at the end of his eighth term, has agreed to join the world’s largest general scientific organization, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), as chief executive officer and executive publisher of the Science family of journals.
He will succeed Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D., who had previously announced that he would be stepping down as AAAS CEO.