The American Association for the Advancement of Science has bestowed upon 416 of its members the lifetime honor of being an elected Fellow in recognition of their extraordinary achievements in advancing science.
The Fellows, announced Nov. 27, will be recognized at the 2019 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. During a Fellows Forum on Feb. 16, they will be presented with an official certificate and the AAAS Fellows’ gold and blue rosette pin, the colors of which represent the fields of science and engineering respectively.
This year’s Fellows, who represent a broad swath of scientific disciplines, were selected for diverse accomplishments that include pioneering research, leadership within their field, teaching and mentoring, fostering collaborations and advancing public understanding of science.
AAAS’ annual tradition of recognizing leading scientists as Fellows dates to 1874. Since then, AAAS has honored distinguished scientists such as astronomer Maria Mitchell, elected a Fellow in 1875; inventor Thomas Edison (1878); chemist Linus Pauling (1939); and computer scientist Grace Hopper (1963). Four of the 2018 Nobel Prize laureates – James Allison, Arthur Ashkin, Frances Arnold and George Smith – are AAAS elected Fellows.
Fellows may be nominated in several ways. A nomination can be put forth by three previously elected Fellows who are current AAAS members. Of the nominators two must have no affiliation with the nominee’s institution. The nominators are required to submit a packet that includes a letter of recommendation from each, the nominee’s curriculum vitæ and a list of the nominee’s most significant publications.
Nominees also may be nominated by AAAS’ chief executive officer or by the steering group of one of AAAS’ 24 sections. All nominees must have been a member of AAAS for four years by the end of the calendar year of their election. Nominations go through a two-step review process, with the relevant steering group reviewing nominations in their section and the AAAS Council – the organization’s member-elected governing body – voting on the final list.
The full list of 2018 Fellows will also be published in the Nov. 29 issue of Science.
2018 AAAS Fellows
SECTION ON AGRICULTURE, FOOD, AND RENEWABLE RESOURCES- Federica Brandizzi, Michigan State University
- Robert J. Ferl, University of Florida
- Elizabeth E. Hood, Arkansas State University
- Carol A. Ishimaru, University of Minnesota
- David (Dave) Peter Jackson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Jeffrey B. Jones, University of Florida
- Bruce A. Kimball, USDA-ARS/The Greenleaf Group
- Andrew D.B. Leakey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Jianxin Ma, Purdue University
- Ray Ming, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Scott Charles Peck, University of Missouri
- David M. Stelly, Texas A&M University/Texas A&M AgriLife Research
- J. Edward Taylor, University of California, Davis
- Martin Wiedmann, Cornell University
- Qijing Zhang, Iowa State University
- Richard Gutierrez Bribiescas, Yale University
- Leo Ralph Chavez II, University of California, Irvine
- Benedikt Hallgrimsson, University of Calgary (Canada)
- Sang-Hee Lee, University of California, Riverside
- Torben (Torrey) Charles Rick, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
- Fred H. Smith, Illinois State University
- Andrea B. Taylor, Touro University
- E. Christian Wells, University of South Florida
- Eric J. Chaisson, Harvard University
- Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Michael A. Janssen, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- William D. Langer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Frederic A. Rasio, Northwestern University
- Massimo Stiavelli, Space Telescope Science Institute
- Ken Owen Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Michael D. Dettinger, U.S. Geological Survey
- Manvendra Krishna Dubey, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Allen H. Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley
- Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
- Dennis A. Hansell, University of Miami
- Elisabeth A. Holland, University of the South Pacific (Fiji)
- Upmanu Lall, Columbia University
- James A. Yoder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/University of Rhode Island
- Xubin Zeng, University of Arizona
- Cory Abate-Shen, Columbia University,Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Dean C. Adams, Iowa State University
- Juan D. Alfonzo, The Ohio State University
- Andreas D. Baxevanis, National Human Genome Research Institute/NIH
- Paul N. Black, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Holly M. Brown-Borg, University of North Dakota
- Christopher G. Burd, Yale University School of Medicine
- Rebecca D. Burdine, Princeton University
- Sean M. Burgess, University of California, Davis
- Craig A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Prosanta Chakrabarty, Louisiana State University
- Robert S. Chapkin, Texas A&M University
- John Chaput, University of California, Irvine
- Jeffrey D. Cirillo, Texas A&M Health Science Center
- Lisa M. Coussens, Oregon Health & Science University
- Thomas L. Crisman, University of South Florida
- Mary Dasso, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development/NIH
- Robert J. Denver, University of Michigan
- Keith M. Derbyshire, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
- Douglas Wayne DeSimone, University of Virginia
- Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar, University of California, Davis
- John M. Drake, University of Georgia
- Ronald M. Evans, Salk Institute for Biological Studies/Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Michael Freitag, Oregon State University
- Michael A. Gealt, Central Michigan University
- Wayne W. Grody, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles
- Anne Grove, Louisiana State University
- James A. Guikema, Kansas State University
- Kenneth M. Halanych, Auburn University
- Kathleen B. Hall, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- K. David Hambright, University of Oklahoma
- Kyle Edward Harms, Louisiana State University
- H. Criss Hartzell, Emory University
- Jody Hey, Temple University
- David Scott Hibbett, Clark University
- Kimberly A. Hughes, Florida State University
- David Allen Hutchins, University of Southern California
- Masayori Inouye, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Bertram L. Jacobs, Arizona State University
- Fredric J. Janzen, Iowa State University
- Joseph Jez, Washington University in St. Louis
- Kristen Marie Johansen, Iowa State University
- Terrance J. Kavanagh, University of Washington
- Daniel B. Kearns, Indiana University
- David M. Kehoe, Indiana University
- Megerditch (Mike) Kiledjian, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- George Liang King, Harvard Medical School
- Carla M. Koehler, University of California, Los Angeles
- Michael J. Kuhar, Emory University
- Jay-Terrence Lennon, Indiana University
- Kim Lewis, Northeastern University
- Judy Lieberman, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- Paul M. Lieberman, The Wistar Institute
- Jiandie D. Lin, University of Michigan
- Xiaorong Lin, University of Georgia
- Iris Lindberg, University of Maryland, Baltimore
- Hua Lu, Tulane University
- Micah Luftig, Duke University
- Julius Lukeš, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
- David Robert Maddison, Oregon State University
- William H. McDowell, University of New Hampshire
- Wladek Minor, University of Virginia
- Corrie Moreau, Field Museum of Natural History/Cornell University
- Frank Edgar Muller-Karger, University of South Florida
- Karl Joseph Niklas, Cornell University
- Seiji Ogawa, Tohoku Fukushi University, Kansei Fukushi Research Center
- Neil Osheroff, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- Andrea Page-McCaw, Vanderbilt University
- Carole A. Parent, University of Michigan
- John T. Patton, Indiana University
- Thomas T. Perkins, JILA/NIST/University of Colorado Boulder
- Linda Joy Pike, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- Joshua B. Plotkin, University of Pennsylvania
- Eric Post, University of California, Davis
- Mary V. Relling, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Jürgen A. Richt, Kansas State University
- Michael A. Riehle, University of Arizona
- Pejman Rohani, University of Georgia
- Noah A. Rosenberg, Stanford University
- Jean M. Sanger, SUNY Upstate Medical University
- Samuel Michael Scheiner, National Science Foundation
- Kevin L. Schey, Vanderbilt University
- Johannes Schul, University of Missouri
- Katriona Shea, Penn State
- Madeline A. Shea, University of Iowa
- Binghui Shen, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope
- Jay Shendure, University of Washington
- Hal L. Smith, Arizona State University
- Holger Sondermann, Cornell University
- Eric V. Stabb, University of Georgia
- Ramunas Stepanauskas, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
- Katharine Nash Suding, University of Colorado Boulder
- Lukas K. Tamm, University of Virginia
- Allen Taylor, Tufts University
- Steven M. Theg, University of California, Davis
- Georgia D. Tomaras, Duke University Medical Center
- James Frances Anthony Traniello, Boston University
- Susannah G. Tringe, U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Maria Vernet, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,University of California, San Diego
- Charles Walcott, Cornell University
- Claire E. Walczak, Indiana University
- Friedbert Weiss, Scripps Research Institute
- Stephen Halley White, University of California, Irvine
- Jan A. Witkowski, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Floyd L. Wormley, Jr., University of Texas at San Antonio
- Gregory Allan Wray, Duke University
- Joseph B. Yavitt, Cornell University
- Malin M. Young, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Jianming Yu, Iowa State University
- Jonathan P. Zehr, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Baohong Zhang, East Carolina University
- Dong-Er Zhang, University of California, San Diego
- Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt, Florida State University
- Matthew John Allen, Wayne State University
- Kara L. Bren, University of Rochester
- Phillip Franklin Britt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Donna A. Chen, University of South Carolina
- Peng Chen, Cornell University
- Zhan Chen, University of Michigan
- Wonhwa Cho, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Robert E. Continetti, University of California, San Diego.
- Marcetta Y. Darensbourg, Texas A&M University
- Olafs Daugulis, University of Houston
- Xiangfeng Duan, University of California, Los Angeles
- Fillmore Freeman, University of California, Irvine
- Teresa Fryberger, National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (Retired)
- Neil K. Garg, University of California, Los Angeles
- David S. Gottfried, Georgia Institute of Technology
- John H. Griffin, Numerate, Inc.
- Robert (Barney) Grubbs, Stony Brook University
- Marina G. Guenza, University of Oregon
- Wayne Charles Guida, University of South Florida
- P. Shiv Halasyamani, University of Houston
- Trevor W. Hayton, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Stefan W. Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry/Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (Germany)
- William H. Hersh, Queens College of the City University of New York
- Stephan Irle, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Jeffrey Scott Johnson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Dimitris Katsoulis, The Dow Chemical Company
- Sung-Hou Kim, University of California, Berkeley
- Aravinda (Arvind) M. Kini, U.S. Department of Energy (Retired)
- Carlito B. Lebrilla, University of California, Davis
- Zhiqun Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Todd B. Marder, Universität Würzburg (Germany)
- Heather D. Maynard, University of California, Los Angeles
- Shelley D. Minteer, University of Utah
- Bruce A. Moyer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Luciano Mueller, Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Janet Elizabeth Nelson, University of Idaho
- Paula J. Olsiewski, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Thalappil Pradeep, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India)
- Glenn D. Prestwich, University of Utah, College of Pharmacy
- Ursula Roethlisberger, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (Switzerland)
- Stewart W. Schneller, Auburn University
- Ram Seshadri, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Page O. Stoutland, Nuclear Threat Initiative
- Mas Subramanian, Oregon State University
- John T. Vaughey, Argonne National Laboratory
- Javier Vela, Iowa State University
- Robert C. Angerer, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research/NIH
- Hyun (Michel) Koo, University of Pennsylvania
- Susan T. Reisine, University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine
- Candan Tamerler, University of Kansas
- Richard W. Valachovic, American Dental Education Association
- Jeffrey Bennett, Big Kid Science
- Beth A. Cunningham, American Association of Physics Teachers
- Ali Eskandarian, The George Washington University
- Tuajuanda C. Jordan, St. Mary's College of Maryland
- Tamara S. Ledley, STEM Education Consultant, Earth and Climate Science
- Nancy Pearson Moreno, Baylor College of Medicine
- Jeffrey M. Osborn, The College of New Jersey
- Nancy Pelaez, Purdue University
- Eliza Jane Reilly, National Center for Science and Civic Engagement
- Kathrin Friederike Stanger-Hall, University of Georgia
- Linette M. Watkins, James Madison University
- Narayana R. Aluru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Guillermo A. Ameer, Northwestern University
- Craig H. Benson, University of Virginia
- Shekhar Bhansali, Florida International University
- Karen J.L. Burg, University of Georgia
- Jian Cao, Northwestern University
- Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University
- Chau-Chyun Chen, Texas Tech University
- Long-Qing Chen, Penn State
- Chang-Beom Eom, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Ali Erdemir, Argonne National Laboratory
- Venkat Ganesan, University of Texas at Austin
- Keith William Hipel, University of Waterloo (Canada)
- M. Saif Islam, University of California, Davis
- Pramod P. Khargonekar, University of California, Irvine
- Joseph A. King, Jr. U.S. Department of Energy-ARPA-E
- Ratnesh Kumar, Iowa State University
- Satish Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Jinsong Leng, Harbin Institute of Technology (China)
- John H. Lienhard V, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Jingyu Lin, Texas Tech University
- Gregory V. Lowry, Carnegie Mellon University
- Dimitrios Maroudas, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Louis A. Martin-Vega, North Carolina State University
- Amit Misra, University of Michigan
- Aydogan Ozcan, University of California, Los Angeles
- Matteo Pasquali, Rice University
- Athina P. Petropulu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Kristala L.J. Prather, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- K.T. Ramesh, Johns Hopkins University
- Liangfang Zhang, University of California, San Diego
- Carol Lynn Alpert, Museum of Science, Boston
- Karl Leif Bates, Duke University
- Ann K. Finkbeiner, Freelance Writer
- Tee Lamont Guidotti, The George Washington University Hospital
- Sue Nichols, Michigan State University
- John Archie Pollock, Duquesne University
- David J. Skorton, The Smithsonian Institution
- David S. Torain II, Montgomery College
- Karen McNulty Walsh, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Richard W. Battarbee, University College London (UK)
- Ann F. Budd, University of Iowa
- Andrew M. Davis, University of Chicago
- Malcolm S. Field, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Karl W. Flessa, University of Arizona
- Sarah Elizabeth Gergel, University of British Columbia (Canada)
- Ethan L. Grossman, Texas A&M University
- Susumu Honjo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- David R. Janecky, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Retired)
- Richard A. Kerr, AAAS/Science (Retired)
- Bruce P. Luyendyk, University of California, Santa Barbara
- James G. Ogg, Purdue University/Chengdu University of Technology (China)
- Frederick J. Swanson, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station
- Kenneth R. Young, University of Texas at Austin
- Helen E. Longino, Stanford University
- Jürgen Renn, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Germany)
- James Francis Woodward, University of Pittsburgh
- Robert W. Boyd, University of Ottawa (Canada)/University of Rochester
- Federico Faggin, Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation
- Avetik P. Harutyunyan, Honda Research Institute, USA
- Allan J. Jacobson, University of Houston
- Gerd Leuchs, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (Germany)
- David L. Morse, Corning Incorporated
- William D. Phillips, National Institute for Standards and Technology
- Esther S. Takeuchi, Stony Brook University/Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Ronald J. Brachman, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech
- David J. Farber, Keio University (Japan)
- Peter Arthur Fox, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- William D. Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Rajesh K. Gupta, University of California, San Diego
- Gregory D. Hager, Johns Hopkins University
- Vasant G. Honavar, Pennsylvania State University
- Huan Liu, Arizona State University
- Stefano Lonardi, University of California, Riverside
- Patricia Morreale, Kean University
- Lynne E. Parker, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- C. Raymond Perrault, SRI International
- Pavel A Pevzner, University of California, San Diego
- Vir V. Phoha, Syracuse University
- Lawrence Rauchwerger, Texas A&M University
- Amit P. Sheth, Wright State University
- Steven Skiena, Stony Brook University
- Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin
- Jie Wu, Temple University
- Katherine A. Yelick, University of California, Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Dragomir R. Radev, Yale University
- Thomas Wasow, Stanford University
- Eric M. Friedlander, University of Southern California
- Ilse C.F. Ipsen, North Carolina State University
- George Em Karniadakis, Brown University
- C.T. Kelley, North Carolina State University
- David E. Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia)
- Yi Li, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
- Samuel Achilefu, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- Victor R. Ambros, University of Massachusetts Medical School
- Richard Axel, Columbia University
- Norbert W. Bischofberger, Gilead Sciences, Inc.
- Guojun Bu, Mayo Clinic
- Henry Joseph Donahue, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Stephen J. Elledge, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Eric R. Fearon, University of Michigan
- Victoria J. Fraser, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- Jeffrey E. Gershenwald, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Thomas W. Glover, University of Michigan
- Jacqueline Tauber Hecht, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- Patrick Hwu, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Thomas J. Inzana, Long Island University, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Alec J. Jeffreys, University of Leicester (UK)
- Philip H. Kass, University of California, Davis
- John F. Kearney, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Kevin E. Kip, University of South Florida
- Steven D. Leach, Dartmouth College/Dartmouth-Hitchcock
- Mark E. Lowe, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- Wayne D. Newhauser, Louisiana State University/Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
- Paul Nurse, The Francis Crick Institute (UK)
- Isaac Ness Pessah, University of California, Davis
- Alvin Carter Powers, Vanderbilt University/Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Donald G. Puro, University of Michigan
- Lawrence I. Rothblum, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- Sharon Irene Smith Rounds, Brown University
- Deborah C. Rubin, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- Liangyou Rui, University of Michigan
- Warren Ston Sandberg, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- L. David Sibley, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- Gary Arthur Silverman, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- William J. Steinbach, Duke University Medical Center
- Vincent W. Yang, Stony Brook University
- Roger L. Albin, University of Michigan
- Jonathan Brewer Cohen, Harvard Medical School
- John C. Crabbe, Oregon Health & Science University/U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Ruth Anne Eatock, University of Chicago
- David C. Gadsby, The Rockefeller University
- Katheleen Gardiner, University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Robert Gereau, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- David D. Ginty, Harvard University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Margaret E. Gnegy, Michigan Medicine
- Andrea G. Hohmann, Indiana University
- Robin Howard Lovell-Badge, The Francis Crick Institute (UK)
- Pedro Ricardo Lowenstein, Michigan Medicine
- Donata Oertel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health
- Michael Andrew Rogawski, University of California, Davis
- Hee-Sup Shin, Institute for Basic Science (Republic of Korea)
- Judith Richmond Walters, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/NIH
- William Steven Dalton, M2Gen
- Kathryn Elaine Meier, Washington State University
- John L. Nitiss, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Natalia Y. Tretyakova, University of Minnesota
- Charles H. Ahn, Yale University
- Farhat N. Beg, University of California, San Diego
- Nora Berrah, University of Connecticut
- Girsh Blumberg, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Joel N. Butler, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Shi-Jie Chen, University of Missouri
- Wai-Yim Ching, University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Timothy Edward Chupp, University of Michigan
- Jodi A. Cooley, Southern Methodist University
- Thomas E. Cravens, University of Kansas
- Zachary Fisk, University of California, Irvine
- James K. Freericks, Georgetown University
- Adam Leibovich, University of Pittsburgh
- Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh
- Adriana Moreo, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- David Howard Reitze, California Institute of Technology/University of Florida
- Gregory W. Swift, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Scott Thomas, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Remco G.T. Zegers, Michigan State University
- Jennifer Crocker, The Ohio State University
- Eric Eich, University of British Columbia (Canada)
- Russell H. Fazio, The Ohio State University
- William E. Haley, University of South Florida
- Steven C. Hayes, University of Nevada, Reno
- Daphne McDonell Maurer, McMaster University (Canada)
- Brian A. Nosek, University of Virginia/Center for Open Science
- Robert M. Nosofsky, Indiana University
- K. Daniel O’Leary, Stony Brook University
- Ellen Peters, The Ohio State University
- Toru Shimizu, University of South Florida
- Peter M. Todd, Indiana University
- Elaine F. Walker, Emory University
- Elke U. Weber, Princeton University
- Carter Tribley Butts, University of California, Irvine
- John B. Casterline, The Ohio State University
- Kathleen M. Heide, University of South Florida
- Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Washington State University
- J. Michael McGinnis, National Academy of Medicine
- Willard L. Rodgers, University of Michigan
- Dani Rodrik, Harvard University
- Elaine Wethington, Cornell University
- Oran R. Young, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Diana Hicks, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Jennifer Kuzma, North Carolina State University
- Jennifer Poulakidas, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
- Susan Sauer Sloan, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
- Amy K. Wolfe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- A. John Bailer, Miami University
- Song Xi Chen, Peking University (China)
- Dianne M. Finkelstein, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Edward L. Ionides, University of Michigan
- David A. Marker, Westat
- Sharon-Lise Teresa Normand, Harvard Medical School
- Giovanni Parmigiani, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
