Current Members of Council

These will be updated as positions are filled

2023-2024 VAS COUNCIL MEMBERS

NOTE: The composition and responsibilities of Council are covered in Article VII of the VAS Constitution.

Elected VAS Officers:

Position Name Contact Information
President Conley McMullen  mcmullck@jmu.edu
President-Elect R. Parrish Waters rwaters@umw.edu
Vice President Christopher Osgood cosgood@odu.edu
Secretary Richard Groover rgroover33@gmail.com
Treasurer April Wynn awynn@umw.edu

Most Recent Past-Presidents (3):

Position Name Contact Information
Past-President (2022-2023) Deborah Neely-Fisher dneely-fisher@reynolds.edu
Past-President (2021-2022) Michael Price msprice@liberty.edu
Past-President (2020-201) Michael Wolyniak mwolyniak@hsc.edu

Directors:

Position Name Contact Information
Director, VJAS Susan Booth director@vjas.org
Associate Director, VJAS (non-voting) Robin Curtis associate-director@vjas.org
Director, Visiting Scientists Program/VRSN (Vacant)

Section Council Representatives:

Section Name Contact Information
Agriculture, Forestry& Aquaculture (Vacant)
Archeology-Inactive (Vacant)
Astronomy, Math & Physics Robert C. Group rcg6p@virginia.edu
Biology Michael S. Price msprice2@liberty.edu
Biomedical & General Engineering Thomas W. Haas thaas@vcu.edu
Botany Joshua A. Kincaid jkincaid@su.edu
Chemistry Edward N. NDip edmund.ndip@hamptonu.edu
Data Science, Computing & Statistics Susan Zehra szehra@odu.edu
Education Se Jeong committee-chair@vjas.org
Entomology Shannon Bradley  sgbradley@vt.edu
Environmental & Conservation Sciences William N. Kissner wkissner@dcpsnet.org
Material Sciences Gary Pickrell pickrell@vt.edu
Medical Sciences Ryan Finnegan finneganrm@mymail.vcu.edu
Natural History & Biodiversity (Vacant)
Psychology Michelle Lange  michelle.lange@cnu.edu
Structural Biology, Biochemistry & Biophysics Nathan T. Wright wrightnt@jmu.edu

 Standing Committee Chairs:

Committee Name Contact Information
Archives Michael Price msprice2@liberty.edu
Awards Darcy Mays dpmays@vcu.edu
Constitution & ByLaws Gary D. Isaacs gdisaacs@liberty.edu
Environment Richard Groover rgroover33@gmail.com
Finance & Endowment Joseph D’Silva jdsilva@nsu.edu
Fund Raising Deborah Neely-Fisher dneely-fisher@reynolds.edu
Junior Academy of Science Se Jeong committee-chair@vjas.org
Long Range Planning Michael Wolyniak mwolyniak@hsc.edu
Membership Chris Osgood cosgood@odu.edu
Nominations and Elections Michael Wolyniak mwolyniak@hsc.edu
Publications Christopher Osgood cosgood@odu.edu
PublicationsResearch William N. Kissner wkissner@dcpsnet.org
Yen-Hung Hu (Frank) yhu@nsu.edu
Science Advisory Iordanka Panayotova iordanka.panayotova@cnu.edu
Science Education Mike Wolyniak mwolyniak@hsc.edu
Trust Elsa Falls defalls4ur@aol.com
Virginia Flora Woody Bousquet wbousque@su.edu

Ad Hoc/Special Committee Chairs:

 

Committee Name Contact Information
SMV History Committee Arthur Conway caconway@vcu.org
Conley McMullen mcmullck@jmu.edu
Fall Meeting Committee R. Parrish Waters RWaters@umw.edu
Website Committee Michael Price msprice2@liberty.edu

 Editors:

Position Name Contact Information
Editor, VA Journal of Science Chris Osgood cosgood@odu.edu
Co-Editors, VA Scientists William N. Kissner wkissner@dcpsnet.org
Deborah Neely-Fisher dneely-fisher@reynolds.edu

Representatives:

Position Name Contact Information
AAAS/NAAS Representative Woody Bousquet wbousque@su.edu
SMV Trustee Representative(Ex-officio) Elsa Falls defalls4ur@aol.com
VAS Representative to Jeffress & Gwathmey Allocations Committee Rosemary Barra rbarra@umw.edu
VAS Representative to VRUEC  (Virginia Resource-Use Education Council) Katherine O’Neill oneill@roanoke.edu

Others Expected to Attend Council Meetings:

Position Name Contact Information
VAS Executive Officer(non-voting) Philip Sheridan psheridan@vacadsci.org
VAS Executive Officer Emeritus(non-voting) Arthur Conway caconway@vcu.org
VAS Associate Executive Officer Emeritus(non-voting) Carolyn Conway cconway@vacadsci.orgvasoffice@vacadsci.org
SMV Representative to VAS Council (non-voting) (Vacant)
Representative(s) from Annual Meeting Local Arrangements Committee Josh Erlich jxerli@wm.edu