The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago has elected DONALD R. HOPKINS, WILL MILLER, and MARJORIE M. SCARDINO to its board. Hopkins, who lives in Chicago, is associate executive director for health programs at the Carter Center in Atlanta. Miller is chairman and CEO of Irwin Financial Corporation in Columbus, Indiana. Scardino is CEO of Pearson, an international education and media group headquartered in London, England.

The Freddie Mac Foundation in McLean, Virginia, has named RALPH BOYD JR. as board chair. Boyd, most recently director of community relations for the foundation, also served as its executive vice president and general counsel. Before joining the foundation, he was an attorney at Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston.

The California Wellness Foundation in Woodland Hills has named DOUGLAS X. PATI�O as board chair, STEWART KWOH as vice chair, and DAVID S. BARLOW and ELIZABETH M. GOMEZ as board members. Pati�o, vice chancellor emeritus for the California State University system and president of the Pati�o Group, serves on the board of the Marguerite Casey Foundation and as a trustee of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and is a presidential appointee to the Enterprise for the Americas board. Kwoh, president and executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, serves on the board of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1998. Barlow, executive director of the San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds, is board treasurer and chief financial officer of the Foundation Consortium for California's Children & Youth and was previously chief financial officer for the San Francisco Foundation and assistant controller of the San Francisco Symphony. Gomez, executive director of the Los Angeles Youth Network, serves on the boards of the California Coalition for Youth and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and previously served as a commissioner for the California State Commission on Juvenile Justice, Crime and Delinquency Prevention.

The San Francisco-based James Irvine Foundation has named LATONYA SLACK as senior program officer for its California Perspectives program, ROG�AIR D. PURNELL as program officer for its youth program, and JEANNE SAKAMOTO as program officer of its arts program. Slack, executive director of the California Black Women's Health Project, previously worked for the Service Employees International Union (Local 399) and was a consumer law advocate for the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. Purnell, a research associate at the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, was previously a senior evaluator with Philliber Research Associates. Sakamoto, who joined the foundation in 2004 as a program associate for the arts, was previously director of special initiatives at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in Los Angeles, where she began work as a J. Paul Getty Grant Multicultural Intern.

The Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley in San Jos�, California, has named TERESA ALVARADO as board president. Alvarado, who has served on the foundation's board for five years, is founder of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, serves on the YWCA Silicon Valley board of directors, and is Pacific Gas & Electric Company's Government and Community Relations representative for the region.

In other news, RALPH CICERONE, chancellor of the University of California at Irvine, has been elected president of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Cicerone, an atmospheric chemist and chemistry professor, served as a research scientist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. His six-year term will begin July 1.