Dr. Mark F. Hamilton, mechanical engineering professor, was elected by the membership as the next president of the Acoustical Society of America.  He will succeed the current president in July 2008, and his term as president will last for one year. His election also includes one-year terms as president-elect and past-president on the governing board of the society.  The fields of acoustics encompassed by the society and its journal range from physical, engineering, biomedical, architectural, structural, and underwater acoustics to musical acoustics, psychological and physiological acoustics, speech and hearing, and animal bioacoustics.