Christina Bodurow elected 2026 ACS president-elect

Christina Bodurow has been elected the 2026 American Chemical Society president-elect by ACS members. Bodurow will serve as society president in 2027 and immediate past president in 2028. These roles include serving on the board of directors from 2026 to 2028. ACS members also elected four others into ACS governance positions. A total of 10,875 votes were cast for president-elect. The total voter turnout was 11.23% of all eligible voters. Bodurow won the president-elect race against Dawn Mason, the assistant vice chancellor for partnerships at North Carolina State University. “It is incredibly exciting and amazingly motivating to be able to have this opportunity,” Bodurow says. “It's the ultimate service to the American Chemical Society, and it's a yearlong process to go through the election, which is a lot of hard work.” Bodurow wanted to tip her hat to Mason, acknowledging the work that goes into the campaign. Bodurow is feeling positive about what she ran on and can’t wait to see some of her strategies come to life as she enters the presidential succession. Bodurow ran her campaign on three strategies that she thinks could help advance the ACS during her presidential year: accelerate interdisciplinary connections and collaboration, expand industry engagement, and promote chemistry in the arts. She sees these three strategies as ways to increase the value of ACS to members, better reflecting the multidisciplinary environments many ACS members work in, gaining and sharing more knowledge of how the chemistry enterprise works and solving global challenges, and giving members a space to share