Science Editor-in-Chief to Retire. (June 22, 2007)

    He's been at the helm for seven years, feisty on the one hand but writing a mea culpa when required on the other: specifically regarding the publication of Hwang Woo-suk's fraudulent papers in Science which reported the successful creation human embryonic stem cells by cloning)

    As Science announced it: "Donald Kennedy has announced that he will be stepping down as Science's editor-in-chief. Kennedy, who has been the magazine's top editor since 1 June 2000, has told the Board of Directors of AAAS, Science's publisher, that he plans to retire around the end of the year but will continue as editor-in-chief until a successor is found. A search committee chaired by AAAS President David Baltimore is being established to conduct an international search. "Don Kennedy has provided superb leadership to Science, and it will be very hard to find a successor," says AAAS CEO Alan Leshner. 'He's set the bar very high.'"