Jaleh Daie, a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has been voted president-elect of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS). Daie, a member of the Wisconsin faculty since 1993, will assume the position in 1996.
Currently, Daie is senior science adviser to the senior vice president for academic affairs of the University of Wisconsin system, and is involved in improving science education programs. From 1985 until last year, she was a faculty member at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. There, she was founding director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Turfgrass Science and director of the school's plant biology graduate program. She also was chairwoman of Rutgers' crop science department and the George H. Cook undergraduate honors program.
Chief among Daie's stated goals for the society is the formation of an AWIS-led Women in Science Consortium that will be made up of societies, federal ...
