Dean Paulin R. Yu of the University of California, Los Angeles, will become the sixth president of the American Council of Learned Societies in the summer of 2003. Yu has been a member of the ACLS Board of Directors since 1998 and is currently Dean of the Humanities in the College of Letters and Science and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Professor Patricia Meyer Spacks, Chair of the ACLS Board, said of the new president: “Pauline Yu's already considerable achievements as a scholar and an academic leader fit her perfectly for the presidency of ACLS. Her colleagues at UCLA, in learned societies, on the ACLS Board, and across the humanities community know they can rely on her discerning judgement and high-minded dedication. I am confident that as president, she will provide the vigorous leadership and distinctive vision we seek.”