Alumna Geraldine Richmond (Ph.D. Chem, '80) and been reappointed to the National Science Board for a second six year term.
The Youth Parliamentarians will serve a two year term and for this first session, will deliberate for three days.
The amendment would have reduced the president's term from seven years to five, but allowed for a second five-year term.
Matthew Masterson, currently chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and a former Ohio state official, has been passed over for a second four-year term as one of the agency's four commissioners, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Mr. Kadyrov's killing came just two days after Mr. Putin was inaugurated as president for a second four-year term, with a declaration that peace had finally returned to Chechnya.
Mr. Maliki secured the nomination for a second four-year term on Friday, but he did so with the support, save one, of only fellow Shiites, in particular the followers of a radical cleric, Moktada al-Sadr, who not long ago were involved in the fighting that plunged Iraq into civil war.
But Álvaro Uribe, Colombia's stern conservative president, is already campaigning for a second four-year term.
Uribe was reelected for a second four-year term in 2006.
Earlier this month, the younger Mr. Stephens ran unopposed for a second four-year term.
Only a few months ago, the Social Democrats seemed a shoo-in for a second four-year term.
