Dr. Marvin Hackert elected president of the International Union of Crystallography

Dr. Marvin Hackert was recently elected president of the International Union of Crystallography. The objectives of the union are "...to promote international cooperation in crystallography and to contribute to all aspects of crystallography, to promote international publication of crystallographic research, to facilitate standardization of methods, units, nomenclatures and symbols, and to form a focus for the relations of crystallography to other sciences." Congratulations, Dr. Hackert!