Seventy-five researchers affiliated with the University of California have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society, in this year's annual election.

Nine UC campuses and all three of its affiliated national laboratories are represented in this year's election of 486 fellows, with 20 from UC Irvine -- more than any other individual institution. With this latest election, approximately 650 UC researchers have been named fellows of the association.

"I congratulate our researchers on this honor," said UC President Mark G. Yudof. "Their work exemplifies the top-notch research UC is doing to improve lives in California and around the world."

Chosen by their peers, AAAS fellows are recognized for their distinguished efforts to advance science and for significant contributions in areas such as research, teaching, technology or administration. New fellows will be recognized on Feb. 14, 2009, at the AAAS annual meeting in Chicago. AAAS, publisher of the journal Science, includes some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals.

The newly elected fellows affiliated with the University of California are:

UC Berkeley
Martin S. Banks
Steven E. Brenner
Jennifer A. Doudna
Graham R. Fleming
Louise P. Fortmann
Susan Marqusee
Barbara J. Meyer
Nipam H. Patel
Elizabeth C. Theil
Bin Yu
Xiang Zhang

UC Davis
Shirley Chiang
Paul A. Luciw
George C. Roussas
David G. Smith
Judith S. Stern
Venkatesan Sundaresan

UC Irvine
Pierre Baldi
James S. Bullock
Paolo Casali
Said Elghobashi
William J. Evans
Brandon S. Gaut
Charles G. Glabe
Zhibin Guan
James W. Hicks
Fadi J. Kurdahi
Arthur D. Lander
Rachel W. Martin
Douglas L. Mills
Laurence D. Mueller
Diane K. O'Dowd
Michael R. Rose
Henry W. Sobel
Oswald Steward
Adam P. Summers
Steven R. White

UCLA
James U. Bowie
Albert C. Carnesale
H. Ronald Kaback

UC Riverside
Steven Brint
Jie Chen
Daphne J. Fairbairn
Jianying (Jay) Gan
J. Daniel Hare
Marshall W. Johnson
Cynthia K. Larive
Carol J. Lovatt
Alan McHughen
Mart Molle
Eugene A. Nothnagel
Jan E. Stets
Yushan Yan

UC San Diego
Darwin Berg
Webster K. Cavenee
William Fenical
Therse Markow
Immo Erich Scheffler
Susan S. Taylor

UC San Francisco
Christine Guthrie
Didier Y.R. Stainier

UC Santa Barbara
Oliver A. Chadwick
Mattanjah S. de Vries
Stanley M. Parsons
Susannah L. Scott
David A. Siegel
J. Herbert Waite

UC Santa Cruz
Phillip Crews
Darrell D.E. Long
Pradip Mascharak

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michael S. Zisman

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Donald L. Correll
Edward I. Moses

Los Alamos National Laboratory
Carol J. Burns
P. Jeffrey Hay

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For more information about the American Association for the Advancement of Science: www.aaas.org

Additional contact: Molly McElroy, AAAS, mmcelroy@aaas.org, (202) 326-6434