Paul Jagodzinski
Paul Jagodzinski, Ph.D. is elected chair of the board of directors of the American Chemical Society (ACS), a scientific membership organization with more than 152,000 members. Jagodzinski will begin his term on Jan. 1, 2021. The ACS is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress.
As chair of the Society’s 16-member chief governing body, Jagodzinski will preside over board and executive committee meetings, appoint chairs and members of board committees and task forces, oversee the performance of the chief executive officer and support strategic planning and evaluation of progress toward those goals, among other duties.
Jagodzinski is a professor of chemistry at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. He earned a bachelor's degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1973 and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Texas A&M University in 1979. He has been a member of ACS since 1976.
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