Congratulations to Marvin Hackert on his election to a 6-year term on the Executive Committee of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). "The IUCr is an International Scientific Union. Its objectives are to promote international cooperation in crystallography and to contribute to all aspects of crystallography, to promote international publication of crystallographic research, to facilitate standardization of methods, units, nomenclatures and symbols, and to form a focus for the relations of crystallography to other sciences." For more information, visit their website.