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{ C O N T E N T S } Volume 8, Issue 3 Rost To Become Rocky'05 Bioinformatics Update on Call for 2006 New ISCB Membership
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© 2005 International Society for Computational Biology. | Rost To Become Next ISCB President
Currently serving as an ISCB Vice President, Dr. Rost will begin his one year term as president-elect on January 21, 2006, followed immediately by a two year term as president. This was the first time in the Society’s history that four candidates ran for any single officer position, and the fact that they were running to take the helm as the next president made this particularly interesting and exciting. With such close results it is apparent that all candidates were considered highly qualified by a significant segment of the voters. However, results such as these plainly demonstrate just how powerful each individual vote is. With approximately 1800 eligible voters at the time of the election, nearly 21% of them voted. This is slightly more than last year, and a reasonable percentage for society/association election participation. If you were among the nearly 400 members who voted
in this election, Thank You! If you intended to vote but never got
around to it, we hope the closeness of the above numbers demonstrate
the value of each individual vote – next time please participate!
The nominations committee is working on increasing voter turnout
in the future by exploring alternative balloting mechanisms, among
other things. If you have experience with running elections for
other groups, ISCB would love to hear from you at admin@iscb.org. |
From
August 16 through September 5, ISCB members participated in electing
the next president of ISCB by casting ballots for president-elect.
Dr. Burkhard Rost was the ultimate victor in a very tight race among
four candidates, with just two votes separating him from runner
up, Dr. Barbara Bryant. A total of 373 ballots were cast by current
year ISCB members with the following results:
