-- Walter Leal, UC Davis associate professor of entomology, has been elected president of the International Society of Chemical Ecology. He will serve a one-year term as president, a one-year term as past president and three-year term as "councillor." Society members are natural product chemists specializing in insect, plant and marine products, biologists, ecologists, molecular biologists and neurophysiologists. The society has 900 members, representing 40 countries. Leal also was named associate editor of the Journal of Chemical Ecology.