Todd
Shupe, a forest products professor at the LSU AgCenter’s Louisiana
Forest Products Development Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been
elected Vice President of the Society of Wood Science and Technology
(SWST). Shupe will officially assume this new responsibility at the
Society’s international annual convention on June 24 in Boise, Idaho.
The following year he will assume the role of President Elect. He
will ascend to the role of president for one year at the Society’s
meeting in 2011. Shupe will be the youngest President in the
history of the organization that was founded in 1958. The Society
of Wood Science and Technology (SWST) is an internationally-recognized
professional organization of wood scientists, engineers, marketing
specialists and other professionals concerned with science and
technology of wood and lignocellulosic materials. The SWST web
site is
www.swst.org
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