In October 2016, the AAAS Council elected 391 members as Fellows of the association, in recognition of their contributions to innovation, education, and scientific leadership. The tradition of electing AAAS Fellows began in 1874 to recognize members for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
The 2016 AAAS Fellows will be recognized at AAAS' 2017 Annual Meeting where they will be presented a rosette pin, its gold and blue colors signify science and engineering, respectively. | AAAS
Currently, members can be considered for the rank of Fellow if nominated by the steering groups of the Association’s 24 sections, or by any three Fellows who are current AAAS members (so long as two of the three sponsors are not affiliated with the nominee’s institution), or by the AAAS chief executive officer. Fellows must have been continuous members of AAAS for four years by the end of the calendar year in which they are elected.
Each steering group reviews the nominations of individuals within its respective section and a final list is forwarded to the AAAS Council, which votes on the aggregate list.
The Council is the policymaking body of the association, chaired by the AAAS president and consisting of the members of the board of directors, the retiring section chairs, delegates from each electorate and each regional division, and two delegates from the National Association of Academies of Science.
Nominations for the 2017 Nomination Cycle will begin on 30 November 2016 and conclude on 26 April 2017.
2016 AAAS Fellows, by section affiliation:
SECTION ON AGRICULTURE, FOOD, AND RENEWABLE RESOURCES
- Michael F. Antonlin, Colorado State University
- David R. Benson, University of Connecticut
- Kelly A. Brayton, Washington State University
- Steven D. Clouse, National Science Foundation
- Katrien M. Devos, University of Georgia
- Markus Flury, Washington State University
- Walter Gassmann, University of Missouri
- Maria Lucia Ghirardi, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Alice C. Harmon, University of Florida
- Stephen H. Howell, Iowa State University
- Howard S. Judelson, University of California, Riverside
- Pal Maliga, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- B. Gail McLean, U.S. Department of Energy
- P.V. Vara Prasad, Kansas State University
- Karen-Beth Goldberg Scholthof, Texas A&M University
- Bir Bahadur Singh, Texas A&M University
- Wallace E. Tyner, Purdue University
- Rajeev K. Varshney, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (India)
- Guo-Liang Wang, Ohio State University
- Rongling Wu, Pennsylvania State University
SECTION ON ANTHROPOLOGY
- Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine
- Anthony Di Fiore, University of Texas at Austin
- Nathaniel J. Dominy, Dartmouth College
- Owen K. Mason, Geoarch Alaska/University of Colorado Boulder
- William M. Maurer, University of California, Irvine
- Karen R. Rosenberg, University of Delaware
- Gary T. Schwartz, Arizona State University
- Mary S. Willis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
SECTION ON ASTRONOMY
- William J. Borucki, NASA Ames Research Center
- Edward J. Groth, Princeton University
- Nancy A. Levenson, Space Telescope Science Institute
- Barbara Sue Ryden, Ohio State University
- David R. Soderblom, Space Telescope Science Institute
- Snežana Stanimirović, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Curtis John Struck, Iowa State University
- Rosemary F.G. Wyse, Johns Hopkins University
SECTION ON ATMOSPHERIC AND HYDROSPHERIC SCIENCES
- Robert W. Corell, Global Environment and Technology Foundation (US)/University of the Arctic (Norway)
- Konstantine P. Georgakakos, Hydrologic Research Center/Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
- Steven M. Gorelick, Stanford University
- W. Andrew Jackson, Texas Tech University
- Cindy Lee, Stony Brook University
- Venkatachalam Ramaswamy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Jiří Šimůnek, University of California, Riverside
- Lynne D. Talley, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/University of California, San Diego
- Hanqin Tian, Auburn University
- Eric F. Wood, Princeton University
- Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University
SECTION ON BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
- John Howard Adams, University of South Florida
- Charles D. Amsler, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- José M. Argüello, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Ralph B. Arlinghaus, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Steven N. Austad, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Paul Babitzke, Pennsylvania State University
- Ian Thomas Baldwin, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (Germany)
- Jill S. Baron, U.S. Geological Survey
- Welcome W. Bender, Harvard Medical School
- Patricia E. Berg, George Washington University
- Eleanor A. Blakely, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- George S. Bloom, University of Virginia
- David L. Brautigan, University of Virginia School of Medicine
- Volker P. Brendel, Indiana University
- David Alan Brow, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- John E. Burris, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Hannah V. Carey, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Junjie Chen, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Suzie Chen, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Xiaodong Cheng, University of Texas Health Science Center
- Janice E. Clements, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Robert A. Copeland, Epizyme, Inc.
- William A. Cramer, Purdue University
- William A. Cresko, University of Oregon
- Thomas E. Dever, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/NIH
- James Andrew DeWoody, Purdue University
- Michael B. Elowitz, California Institute of Technology/Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- John J. Ewel, University of Florida
- Stephen P. A. Fodor, 13.8, Inc.
- Kathleen R. Foltz, University of California, Santa Barbara
- David A. Fruman, University of California, Irvine
- Phillip "Andy" Futreal, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- George Fu Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences/Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- David Moore Glover, University of Cambridge (UK)
- Barbara Lynn Golden, Purdue University
- Joel Mitchell Goodman, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
- Steven R. Goodman, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- Max E. Gottesman, Columbia University
- Geoffrey L. Greene, University of Chicago
- Wei Gu, Columbia University
- Xun Gu, Iowa State University
- Phyllis Ida Hanson, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- Jeffrey Field Harper, University of Nevada, Reno
- Jack Jacek Hawiger, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- Wolf-Dietrich Heyer, University of California, Davis
- Timothy T. Hla, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
- Robert Dan Holt, University of Florida
- Karen W. Hughes, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Neil Hunter, University of California, Davis/Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Jerard Hurwitz, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Sue L. Jaspersen, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
- Henry B. John-Alder, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Monica J. Justice, The Hospital for Sick Children/University of Toronto (Canada)
- Yibin Kang, Princeton University
- Michael Kaspari, University of Oklahoma
- Terri Goss Kinzy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Mark Kirkpatrick, University of Texas at Austin
- Yuan-Chuan Lee, Johns Hopkins University
- Jane Barbara Lian, University of Vermont College of Medicine
- Jon Martin Lindstrom, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
- Michael C. Lorenz, University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston
- Michael S. Marks, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute/University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
- Sarah Mathews, Australian National Herbarium, CSIRO
- Glenn Merlino, National Cancer Institute/NIH
- Peter B. Moyle, University of California, Davis
- Gregory M. Mueller, Chicago Botanic Garden
- Mary C. Mullins, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
- Mona Nemer, University of Ottawa (Canada)
- Kathleen J. Newton, University of Missouri
- Krishna K. Niyogi, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/University of California, Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Ann Carol Palmenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- David Patterson, University of Denver
- James C. Paulson, The Scripps Research Institute
- Debra P.C. Peters, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Anne L. Plant, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Clifton A. Poodry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Kathleen Postle, Pennsylvania State University
- A. Gururaj Rao, Iowa State University
- John Franklin Rawls, Duke University
- Monica Roth, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Karla J. F. Satchell, Northwestern University
- Martin A. Schwartz, Yale University
- Phillip Andrew Scott, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
- Zu-Hang Sheng, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke /NIH
- Ali Shilatifard, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- James J. Smith, Michigan State University
- Patricia A. Sobecky, University of Alabama
- John R. Speakman, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)/University of Aberdeen (UK)
- Jonathan P. Staley, University of Chicago
- Janet L. Stein, University of Vermont College of Medicine
- Carol A. Stepien, University of Toledo/NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
- Gary D. Stormo, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- Surachai Supattapone, Dartmouth College
- Dean G. Tang, Roswell Park Cancer Institute/University at Buffalo, SUNY
- Ross A. Virginia, Dartmouth College
- Sharlene C. Weatherwax, U.S. Department of Energy
- Alissa M. Weaver, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- Steven A. Whitham, Iowa State University
- Michael Robert Willig, University of Connecticut
- Donald R. Zak, University of Michigan
SECTION ON CHEMISTRY
- James B. Ames, University of California, Davis
- Paul A. Aristoff, Aristoff Consulting
- Raymond Dean Astumian, University of Maine
- Lisa M. Berreau, Utah State University
- R. Morris Bullock, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Mark R. Chance, Case Western Reserve University
- Jorge L. Colón, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
- Catherine E. Costello, Boston University School of Medicine
- Gerard Charles Dismukes, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Jean-Pol Dodelet, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) (Canada)
- Patrick H. Dussault, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- David Fielder Eaton, Light Insights, LLC
- Irving Robert Epstein, Brandeis University
- William H. Green, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- István T. Horváth, City University of Hong Kong
- Hilkka Inkeri Kenttämaa, Purdue University
- Craig W. Lindsley, Vanderbilt University
- Fred Edward Lytle, Indigo BioAutomation
- Julie T. Millard, Colby College
- Stephen L. Morgan, University of South Carolina
- James Henderson Naismith, University of St. Andrews (UK)/Sichuan University (China)
- Thomas J. Pinnavaia, Michigan State University
- Martyn Poliakoff, University of Nottingham (UK)
- Robert Powers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Chad M. Rienstra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- William L. Schinski, Chevron (Retired)
- Diane Grob Schmidt, University of Cincinnati
- David K. Shuh, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Brock Spencer, Beloit College
- Hans-Peter Steinrück, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
- Tjerk P. Straatsma, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Dean J. Tantillo, University of California, Davis
- Donald A. Tomalia, NanoSynthons LLC/University of Pennsylvania/Virginia Commonwealth University
- Shiou-Chuan (Sheryl) Tsai, University of California, Irvine
- David H. Waldeck, University of Pittsburgh
- Daniel John Weix, University of Rochester
- Hong-Cai "Joe" Zhou, Texas A&M University
SECTION ON DENTISTRY AND ORAL HEALTH SCIENCES
- Luisa A. DiPietro, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Christopher H. Fox, International and American Associations for Dental Research
- Arthur R. Hand, University of Connecticut
- Michael Lansdell Paine, University of Southern California
SECTION ON EDUCATION
- Amy L. Chang, American Society for Microbiology
- Florence Dowdell Fasanelli, AAAS (Retired)
- Mary Anne Holmes, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Judith Marie Iriarte-Gross, Middle Tennessee State University
- William F. McComas, University of Arkansas
- Linda L. Slakey, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Eric Paul Wiertelak, Macalester College
SECTION ON ENGINEERING
- Chandra Mauli Agrawal, University of Texas at San Antonio
- Kaustav Banerjee, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Michael Bass, University of Central Florida
- Kamran Behdinan, University of Toronto (Canada)
- Gerald M. Borsuk, Naval Research Laboratory
- Susmita Bose, Washington State University
- Alexander N. Cartwright, State University of New York
- Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University
- Jianjun Cheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Simon R. Cherry, University of California, Davis
- Brian T. Cunningham, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- David Darwin, University of Kansas
- Peter Francis Davies, University of Pennsylvania
- Z. Hugh Fan, University of Florida
- Philippe M. Fauchet, Vanderbilt University
- James H. Garrett, Jr., Carnegie Mellon University
- Roger Ghanem, University of Southern California
- David Arthur Gough, University of California, San Diego
- Ashwani K. Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park
- Chih-Ming Ho, University of California, Los Angeles
- Hongxing Jiang, Texas Tech University
- Ali Khounsary, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Ilona Kretzschmar, City College of City University of New York
- Sidney Leibovich, Cornell University
- Frank L. Lewis, University of Texas at Arlington
- Xuelong Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Zheng-Hong Lu, University of Toronto (Canada)
- Carmen S. Menoni, Colorado State University
- Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University
- Jeffrey Alan Packer, University of Toronto (Canada)
- Joan M. Redwing, Pennsylvania State University
- Paul Sajda, Columbia University
- Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan
- Mohammad Shahidehpour, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Michael J. Solomon, University of Michigan
- Yu Sun, University of Toronto (Canada)
- Mason B. Tomson, Rice University
- Judson W. Virden, Jr., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Xin Zhang, Boston University
- Wei Hong (Katie) Zhong, Washington State University
- Yimei Zhu, Brookhaven National Laboratory
SECTION ON GENERAL INTEREST IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
- Paul G. Heltne, Chicago Academy of Sciences
- Igor Linkov, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
SECTION ON GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY
- Bryan Charles Chakoumakos, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Peter U. Clark, Oregon State University
- Henry J. B. Dick, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Michelle Anne Kominz, Western Michigan University
- Zhe-Xi Luo, University of Chicago
- Stephen J. Mackwell, Universities Space Research Association
- Alan C. Mix, Oregon State University
- Bruce L. Rhoads, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- John W. Valley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Herman B. Zimmerman, National Science Foundation (retired)
SECTION ON HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
- Heather E. Douglas, University of Waterloo (Canada)
- Michael A. Osborne, Oregon State University
- Susan G. Sterrett, Wichita State University
SECTION ON INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Baohua Gu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Harald Hess, Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI
SECTION ON INFORMATION, COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION
- Divyakant Agrawal, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania
- Philip A. Bernstein, Microsoft Research
- Elisa Bertino, Purdue University
- Vijayakumar Bhagavatula, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ronald F. Boisvert, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Lynn Conway, University of Michigan
- Inderjit S. Dhillon, University of Texas at Austin
- Dmitry B. Goldgof, University of South Florida
- Ramesh C. Jain, University of California, Irvine
- Frederick E. Petry, Naval Research Laboratory
- Eugene Santos, Jr., Dartmouth College
- Howard E. Shrobe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Larry Lee Smarr, University of California, San Diego
- Diane L. Souvaine, Tufts University
- Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Gene Tsudik, University of California, Irvine
- Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University (China)
- Wenwu Zhu, Tsinghua University (China)
SECTION ON LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE SCIENCES
- Jonathan David Bobaljik, University of Connecticut
- Shari R. Speer, Ohio State University
- Dieter Wunderlich, Center for General Linguistics (Germany)
SECTION ON MATHEMATICS
- James W. Cogdell, Ohio State University
- Robert M. Guralnick, University of Southern California
- David Kinderlehrer, Carnegie Mellon University
- Santiago Schnell, University of Michigan
SECTION ON MEDICAL SCIENCES
- Stephen J. Brandt, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- David E. Briles, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Powel H. Brown, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Wendy Cozen, University of Southern California
- Wael El-Rifai, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Andrew R. Hoffman, Stanford University Medical Center
- Eugenie S. Kleinerman, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Edison Tak-Bun Liu, The Jackson Laboratory
- Peter Lobel, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Charles J. Lockwood, University of South Florida
- Robert L. MacDonald, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Joseph Bernard Margolick, Johns Hopkins University
- Christopher J. Molloy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Jeffrey N. Myers, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Martin G. Myers, Jr., University of Michigan
- Liise-anne Pirofski, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- David Brent Polk, University of Southern California/Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- David T. Scadden, Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital
- Michael D. Schneider, Imperial College London (UK)
- Dong Moon Shin, Emory University
- Lawrence Steinman, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Terrence L. Stull, Phoenix Children's Research Institute
- David J. Tweardy, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Thomas J. Walsh, Weill Cornell Medicine
- Joe Brice Weinberg, Duke University Medical Center
- Edward T.H. Yeh, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Jia Long Zhuo, University of Mississippi Medical Center
SECTION ON NEUROSCIENCE
- Jesús Avila, CSIC-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
- Azad Bonni, Washington University in St. Louis
- Roger James Colbran, Vanderbilt University
- Charles August Greer, Yale University School of Medicine
- Kristen M. Harris, University of Texas at Austin
- Daniel Johnston, University of Texas at Austin
- Yueming Li, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Kenneth Paul Mackie, Indiana University
- Elly Nedivi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Ardem Patapoutian, The Scripps Research Institute
- Henry L. Paulson, University of Michigan
- Gary Edward Pickard, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Martin C. Raff, University College London (UK)
- Clifton W. Ragsdale, University of Chicago
- Laura P.W. Ranum, University of Florida
- Nina Felice Schor, University of Rochester Medical Center
- Amita Sehgal, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
- Leslie P. Tolbert, University of Arizona
- Benjamin L. Wolozin, Boston University School of Medicine
SECTION ON PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
- Per Artursson, Uppsala University (Sweden)
- Ah-Ng Tony Kong, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Shyam S. Mohapatra, University of South Florida
- James M. O'Donnell, University at Buffalo, SUNY
- Craig K. Svensson, Purdue University
SECTION ON PHYSICS
- John R. Arrington, Argonne National Laboratory
- Luis Balicas, Florida State University
- Alice Bean, University of Kansas
- John Michael Blondin, North Carolina State University
- Andrea Cavalleri, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (Germany)
- Bradley B. Cox, University of Virginia
- Scott A. Crooker, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Steven T. Cundiff, University of Michigan
- David J. Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Jerry P. Draayer, Louisiana State University
- Henry O. Everitt III, U.S. Army
- Jonathan L. Feng, University of California, Irvine
- Mary K. Gaillard, University of California, Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Berend T. Jonker, Naval Research Laboratory
- Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Dennis K. Killinger, University of South Florida
- Albert John Lazzarini, California Institute of Technology
- Don Lincoln, Fermilab
- William C. Louis III, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Jay N. Marx, LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Howard S. Matis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- A. Alan Middleton, Syracuse University
- Louis M. Pecora, Naval Research Laboratory
- Hrvoje Petek, University of Pittsburgh
- Kevin T. Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- L. Ramdas Ram-Mohan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Markus B. Raschke, University of Colorado
- Brian C. Sales, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Jorge O. Sofo, Pennsylvania State University
- Din Ping Tsai, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
- Brian D. Wirth, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Kun Yang, Florida State University
- Arjun G. Yodh, University of Pennsylvania
SECTION ON PSYCHOLOGY
- Norma Graham, Columbia University
- Ruben C. Gur, University of Pennsylvania
- James Henry Howard, Jr., Catholic University of America
- Elizabeth F. Loftus, University of California, Irvine
- Ricardo Felipe Muñoz, Palo Alto University/University of California, San Francisco
- Abigail J. Stewart, University of Michigan
- Jyotsna Vaid, Texas A&M University
- Bencie Woll, University College London (UK)
SECTION ON SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SCIENCES
- Douglas L. Anderton, University of South Carolina
- Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
- Richard T. Carson, University of California, San Diego
- Holly Doremus, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
- Stanley Presser, University of Maryland, College Park
SECTION ON SOCIETAL IMPACTS OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
- Clinton J. Andrews, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Brenda Ekwurzel, Union of Concerned Scientists
- John S. Gardenier, National Center for Health Statistics (Retired)
- Kaye Husbands Fealing, Georgia Institute of Technology
SECTION ON STATISTICS
- Alicia L. Carriquiry, Iowa State University
- Michael R. Kosorok, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- George Ostrouchov, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Jane F. Pendergast, Duke University Medical Center
- Dale L. Preston, HiroSoft International Corporation
- Francisco J. Samaniego, University of California, Davis
- Yu Shyr, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Hal S. Stern, University of California, Irvine
- Anastasios A. Tsiatis, North Carolina State University
- Xiao-Hua (Andrew) Zhou, University of Washington/Peking University (China)
- Lixing Zhu, Beijing Normal University/Hong Kong Baptist University