governance

Board of Directors
The Board, which meets quarterly, establishes the policies of AURA, approves its budget, elects members of the Management Councils, and appoints the President, the Center Directors, and other principal officers. The Board of Directors is responsible to the Member Representatives for the effective management of AURA and the achievement of its purposes.
BOARD MEMBERS

Dr. Harvey Butcher
Mt. Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories
Australian National University


Dr. Bruce Carney
Office of the Provost
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Dr. Dan Clemens (Chair)
Boston University


Dr. Andrea Dupree
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics


Dr. Frederick Gilman
Department of Physics
Carnegie Mellon University


Dr. Richard Green
Large Binocular Telescope Observatory
University of Arizona


Dr. Timothy Heckman (Vice Chair)
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University


Dr. Todd Hoeksema
W.W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory
Stanford University


Dr. Elizabeth Hoffman
Iowa State University




Dr. Charles Lada
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory


Dr. Daniel Larson
Eberly College of Science
Pennsylvania State University


Dr. John Peoples Jr.
Fermilab


Dr. Mark Phillips
Las Campanas Observatory
Carnegie Observatories


Dr. Philip Pinto
Department of Astronomy
University of Arizona


Dr. Maria Teresa Ruiz
Departamento de Astronomia
Universidad de Chile


Dr. Robert Shelton
Executive Director
Arizona Sports Foundation


Dr. William Smith  (ex officio)
AURA President


Dr. Oskar von der Lühe
Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik