Delores G. Brown, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Indiana Academy of Science, and Academy Fellow ’21, has been elected by the Assembly of Delegates to the National Association of Academy of Science (NAAS), to serve on its Board of Directors. In 1848 the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was founded. With individual members in more than 91 countries around the globe, the AAAS is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its Science family of journals. Since 1848, forty-seven state, regional, and municipal academies of science have been formed, with the Indiana Academy of Science formed in 1885. These forty-seven academies of science are the affiliates of AAAS, and makeup the National Association of Academies of Science (NAAS).