SALISBURY COVE – Terence Boylan has been elected chairman of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory board of trustees, succeeding Dr. James Boyer, who served as chairman for eight years.

Boylan, of Rhinebeck, N.Y., is founder and executive director of the John W. Boylan Foundation for International Medical Research, a nonprofit organization that supports biomedical research and international scientist exchange fellowships. The foundation is named for his father who was a longtime kidney researcher at MDIBL.

A graduate of Bard College, Boylan served on the college’s board of governors for 17 years, and also is a musician and record producer. He has recorded several albums on the Warner Brothers-Asylum Records label.

The laboratory also elected two new board members at its July 24 meeting. Phoebe Boyer is executive director of the Tiger Foundation, which was founded in New York in 1990 by Tiger Management, a New York investment firm, to aid nonprofits serving the city’s neediest families.

Boyer received a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and a master’s degree from Columbia University. She serves as a board member and treasurer of Cool Culture, a New York nonprofit, and is a volunteer alumni interviewer for Wesleyan University.

Sally Bowles is an independent consultant who lives in Essex, Conn. From 1993 to 2001, she served as president of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and, before that, she worked as a consultant for the Rockefeller Foundation’s global environment programs. In 2001, she joined the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation’s board of directors.

Bowles also served as an adviser and assistant to former New York Mayor John Lindsay and was assistant to the director of the Peace Corps after working on the group that drafted the executive order to establish the Peace Corps. She has a bachelor’s degree from Smith College.

Dr, Edward Benz, president of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, was elected vice chairman of the MDIBL board of trustees, and Max Brenninkmeyer of Surry was elected treasurer.