Dear GGR members:
The GGR nominations committee has prepared a ballot for the 2016 elections for members of the new executive committee. We will need to fill one vice chair position, two member-at-large positions, and one student representative position. The candidates are:
Vice Chair Candidates
- Emanuele Berti (University of Mississippi)
- Shane Larson (Northwestern University)
Member-at-Large Candidates
- Megan DeCesar (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
- Paul Demorest (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
- Charles Hagedorn (University of Washington)
- Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (Vanderbilt University)
- Eliu Huerta (NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
- Bernard Kelly (Goddard Space Flight Center)
- Chiara Mingarelli (JPL, Caltech)
- Leo Stein (Caltech)
- James Thorpe (Goddard Space Flight Center)
Student Representative Candidates
- Megan Jones (West Virginia University)
- Jordan Moxon (Cornell University)
- Joe Simon (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
According to the Bylaws, another name or names can be added to the ballot if as many as 5% of the members suggest the same person. If you wish to nominate a new candidate for vice chair, member-at-large, or student representative please send your nomination by email to tbaumgar@bowdoin.edu, before December 31, 2015.