K-State professor chosen as president-elect of National Scientific Council

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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

K-STATE PROFESSOR CHOSEN AS PRESIDENT-ELECT OF NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL

MANHATTAN -- Kassim Al-Khatib, professor of agronomy at Kansas State University, has been elected as the next president of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology. His one-year term as president of the council will begin in October 2007.

The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology is a nonprofit organization with 173,000 members nationwide. It is composed of 38 scientific societies and many individual, student, company, nonprofit and associate society members. The council was established in 1972 as a result of a 1970 meeting sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council. The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology assembles, interprets and communicates credible, science-based information regionally, nationally and internationally to legislators, regulators, policymakers, the media, the private sector and the public.

Al-Khatib, a weed physiologist, has been on the agronomy faculty at K-State since 1996.