UC scientists elected AAAS fellows


 

AAAS news release

UC Davis release

UCLA release

UC San Diego release

UC Santa Barbara release 

Fifty-nine University of California scientists have been elected as fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society.

They are among 539 AAAS fellows elected this year. The new group of fellows brings UC's total fellowship to 709.

The UC scientists, honored for their contributions to science and technology, are:

Berkeley

Robert J. Full (biological sciences)
Leslea J. Hlusko (anthropology)
Daniel M. Kammen (societal impacts of science and engineering)
Randy H. Katz (information, computing and communication)
Chung-Pei Ma (astronomy)
Anastasios Melis (biological sciences)
Carolyn Merchant (history and philosophy of science)
Sheila McCormick (biological sciences)
John J. Ohala (linguistics and language sciences)
Stuart Russell (information, computing and communication)
Martin White (astronomy)

Davis

Alan L. Balch (chemistry)
Peter A. Beal (chemistry)
Louise E. Jackson (agriculture, food and renewable resources)
David J. Mackill (agriculture, food and renewable resources)
Maureen L. Stanton (biological sciences)
Larry N. Vanderhoef  (biological sciences)

Irvine

William J. Cooper (chemistry)
Bradford A. Hawkins (biological sciences)
Robert F. Phalen (general interest in science and engineering)

UCLA

Francesco Chiappelli (dentistry)
Steve W. Cole (psychology)
Mark L. Green (mathematics)
Robert L. Modlin (biological sciences)
J. David Neelin (atmospheric and hydrospheric science)
Cun-Yu Wang (dentistry)
William W-G. Yeh (engineering)

Riverside

Xuemei Chen (biological sciences)
Rajiv Gupta (engineering)
Yingbo Hua (engineering)
Yinsheng Wang (chemistry)

San Diego

Alexandra C. Newton (biological sciences)
Joseph M. O'Connor (chemistry)
Carol Padden (linguistics and language sciences)
Dena Plemmons (societal impacts of science and engineering)
Lu Jeu Sham (physics)
James W. Posakony (biological sciences)
Michael J. Sailor (chemistry)
Lisa Tauxe, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (geology and geography)
Paul K.L. Yu (engineering)

San Francisco

Linda C. Giudice (medical sciences)
Joan F. Hilton (statistics)
Deepak Srivastava, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (medical sciences)

Santa Barbara

Lars Bildsten (astronomy)
Frederick Dahlquist (chemistry)
Alan J. Heeger (physics)
W. Patrick McCray (history and philosophy of science
Philip A. Pincus (physics)
Kevin W. Plaxco (biological sciences)
Robert L. Sugar (physics)
Subhash Suri (information, computing and communication)

Santa Cruz

Martín Abadi (information, computing and communication)

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Alexander V. Balatsky (physics)
Byron Goldstein (biological Sciences)
John C. Gordon (chemistry)
Quanxi Jia (industrial science and technology)
Jaqueline L. Kiplinger (chemistry)
Jeanne M. Robinson (chemistry)
Richard T. Sayre (biological sciences)