guidance in addressing research issues in Inner Asia. It is governed by officers nominated and elected to two year terms by the board itself. These officer positions include president, vice-president for external relations, vice-president for member services, treasurer, and secretary. The board of directors also appoints the executive staff which supervises the daily operations of the organization. This executive staff includes the executive director of the ACMS, resident director of the ACMS Mongolia office, and deputy director of the ACMS Mongolia office. Officers President - William Fitzhugh, Smithsonian Institution Vice-President for External Relations - Dr. Paula DePriest, Smithsonian Institution Vice-President for Member Services - Dr. Julian Dierkes, University of British Columbia Treasurer - Dr. Meredith Giordano, International Water Management Institute Secretary - Dr. Elizabeth Endicott, Middlebury College Membership The center is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. The organization has over 30 institutional members which include universities, museums, and other not-for-profit, educational or cultural organizations. In addition, the ACMS has over 300 individual members and sponsors. Logo The logo is derived from the Mongolian Soyombo symbol, the symbol on the national flag of Mongolia. Activities Promoting research and scholarship in Inner Asia is the stated goal of the ACMS. It organizes and conducts international conferences, provides fellowships to student researchers, cooperates with local libraries to improve access to materials, and produces informational resources about academic activities in Inner Asia. It provides logistical support to individual researchers and institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution and United States Geological Survey. In addition, it organizes regular public lectures, the Speaker Series, in Ulaanbaatar which are given by Mongolian and international scholars on various research topics. Research Mongolia was overlooked in much of the congressional spending legislation produced in the post-Soviet era, such as the Fulbright-Hays Title VIII program. As a consequence direct US government support for the field of Mongolian Studies dwindled relative to other area studies throughout the 1990s, and institutional support for discipline-based research in Mongolia was not well organized. In spite of this, between 1990 and 2003 over 70 PhD dissertations and Masters theses were written at US universities about topics related to Mongolia or involving Mongolia as the context of the research. The ACMS was founded with the intention of providing the institutional support to address these resources issues and organize research produced in the region. Books for Mongolia program In November 2013, The Asia