Wilma K. Olson, the Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers, and an associate faculty member in biomedical engineering, began her term as the president of the Biophysical Society Feb. 25 at the society�s 2002 annual meeting in San Francisco. Dr. Olson is also the director of the Center for Molecular Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry at Rutgers. She is known for her contributions to molecular biophysics through groundbreaking studies of nucleic acids, where she has developed and applied novel computational tools.