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Mary M. Kritz, senior research associate in the Department of Rural Sociology and associate director of the Population and Development Program, was elected secretary general and treasurer of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). The IUSSP is the international professional association of scholars engaged in population studies. It promotes the scientific study of population determinants and consequences and the linkages between population trends and socio-economic, environmental and other forces. The IUSSP has 2,000 members from 130 countries and has a headquarters in Paris. The secretary general and treasurer is a member of the IUSSP council and bureau (Executive Committee).