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CommitteesA number of committees develop many of the ACA policies and programs. Under the direction of Council, and with the assistance of the ACA Headquarters, they work to achieve the societies goals and objectives.
Nominating CommitteeThis Committee exists to solicit and secure formal acceptance of nominations for positions on the Communications Committee, Education Committee, Data, Standards & Computing Committee and the ACA Council. Positions on the Council for which the Nominating Committee secures candidates include the Vice President (annually), Secretary (every three years) and Treasurer (every three years). The Nominating Committee is comprised of the immediate Past President, a new member appointed by the current President and one former member of the Committee. 2019 Members: Tom Terwilliger | Los Alamos Inst & BioScience Division | Los Alamos National Lab Amy Sarjeant | Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre [Chair] Patrick Loll | Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Drexel University
Communications Committee The duties of the Communications Standing Committee are to carryout public communications on behalf of the ACA and the structural science community and to review requests made to the ACA for outreach funding. Communications Committee members are encouraged to manage social media posts (Facebook, Twitter) in conjunction with the Director of Administrative Services and the Chair of the YSIG. The Communications Committee shall also be in charge of reviewing requests made to the ACA for funds to support outreach activities on a regular basis and to make recommendations to council. The committee shall meet at least once per year, and the chair of the committee is responsible for presenting a written report to Council during the Annual Meeting. 2019 Members: Jim Fettinger [2016-2019] University of California, Davis Brian Patrick [2017-2020] University of British Columbia Krystle McLaughlin [2018-2021] Vassar College Louise Dawe [2019-2022] Wilfrid Laurier University
Education Committee The duties of the Education Committee are to review proposals for workshops held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting and make recommendations to ACA Council on which workshops to include in the program, to review proposals for the ACA Small Molecule Crystallography school and make recommendations to ACA Council, and to review the applications for Student Travel Awards for the Annual Meeting and make recommendations to ACA Council. The committee shall meet at least once per year, and the chair of the committee is responsible for presenting a written report to Council during the Annual Meeting.2019 Members: Danielle Gray [2016-2019] University of Illinois Charlotte Stern [2017-2020] Northwestern University Pete Wood [2018-2021] CCDC Allen Oliver [2019-2022] University of Notre Dame
Data, Standards & Computing The duties of the Data, Standards & Computing may be divided into short term and mid-term goals: Short term goals (< 2 years)
Mid-term (2-3 years)
2019 Members: Nadia Zatsepin [2016-2019] Arizona State University Nicholas Sauter [2017-2020] Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Paul Sanschagrin [2018-2021] CCDC Eric Reinheimer [2019-2022] Rigaku Americas Corp. Meeting Reorganization / Enhancement CommitteeThe duties of the Meeting Committee will be as follows:
2019 Members: Stephan Ginell [2018-2019] Vivien Yee [2018-2019] Nozomi Ando [2019-2020] Carla Slebodnick [2019-2020]
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