Seventy-six University of California scientists have been elected as fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They are among 701 AAAS fellows elected this year. The new group of fellows brings UC's total fellowship to 783.

The AAAS, established in 1848, is the world's largest general scientific society with a mission to "advance science and serve society" through initiatives in science policy, international programs, science education and more.

The honored UC scientists are:

Berkeley

Sheng Luan, professor of plant and microbial biology
Kunxin Luo, professor of molecular and cell biology
Eric Norman, professor of nuclear engineering
Evan Williams, professor of chemistry

Davis

Kyriacos Athanasiou, professor and chair of biomedical engineering
Lars Berglund, senior associate dean for research and director of the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center
Nicole Woolsey Biggart, Chevron Chair in Energy Efficiency and director of the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center
Richard M. Bostock, professor of plant pathology
David Britt, professor of chemistry
Luca Comai, professor of plant biology
Mary Erin Delany, interim dean of College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
David Fyhrie, professor of biomedical engineering and David Linn Endowed Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery
M. Eric Gershwin, professor and chief of rheumatology, allergy and clinical immunology
Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague, professor and chair of chemistry
Louise H. Kellogg, professor of geology
Steven J. Luck, professor psychology and director of the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain
Prasant Mohapatr, professor and chair of computer science
Isabel Patricia Montañez, professor of geology
Jan Nolta, director of UC Davis Stem Cell Program
Ray Rodriguez, director of Center for Nutritional Genomics
Howard J. Spero, professor and chair of geology

Irvine

Bruce Blumberg, professor of developmental and cell biology, pharmaceutical sciences and biomedical engineering
Andrew Borovik, professor of chemistry
Ken Cho, professor of developmental and cell biology
Ron Frostig, professor of neurobiology and behavior
David Gardiner, professor of developmental and cell biology
Wen-Hwa Lee, Donald Bren Professor of Biological Chemistry
Jacob Levin, assistant vice chancellor for research development
Hartmut Luecke, professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, physiology and biophysics and computer science
Markus Ribbe, professor of molecular biology and biochemistry and chemistry
Ann Sakai, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology
Rozanne Sandri-Goldin, professor and chair of microbiology and molecular genetics
Thomas Schilling, professor of developmental and cell biology
Gregory Weiss, professor of chemistry and molecular biology and biochemistry

UCLA

Genhong Cheng, professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics
Panagiotis D. Christofides, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and electrical engineering
Jeffery F. Miller, professor and chair of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics
No-Hee Park, dean of the UCLA School of Dentistry
Ali H. Sayed, professor and former chair of electrical engineering
Weng Kee Wong, professor of biostatistics

Riverside

Edith Bach Allen, professor of plant ecology
Pingyun Feng, professor of chemistry

San Diego

Dimitri Basov, professor and chair of physics
Jeffrey Esko, professor of cellular and molecular medicine
Benjamin Grinstein, professor of physics
David Kleinfeld, professor of physics
Ratnesh Lal, professor of engineering
Aneesh Manohar, professor of physics
John Newsam, adjunct professor of chemistry and biochemistry
Katerina Semendeferi, professor of anthropology
Victor Vianu, professor of engineering
Arthur Wolfe, professor of physics

San Francisco

Diane L. Barber, professor of cell and tissue biology
Pamela K. Den Besten, professor of orofacial sciences
Robert H. Edwards, professor neurology
Ulrike Heberlein, adjunct professor of anatomy
Holly Ingraham, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology
Anthony J. Wynshaw-Boris, professor of pediatrics

Santa Barbara

Douglas Burbank, professor and chair of earth science
Amr El Abbadi, professor of computer science
Jacob Israelachvili, professor of chemical engineering
David Lea, professor of earth science
R. Daniel Little, professor of chemistry and biochemistry
Samir Mitragotri, professor of chemical engineering
Melvin Oliver, SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences and executive dean of the College of Letters and Science
Joseph Polchinski, professor of physics

Santa Cruz

Ilan Benjamin, professor and chair of chemistry and biochemistry
Sandra Chung, professor of linguistics.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Susan Celniker, Life Sciences Division
Wim Leemans, Accelerator and Fusion Research Division

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Christopher Keane, global science
Jane Long, climate change, geoengineering, nuclear waste and energy technology

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Jennifer S. Martinez, chemistry
Mary P. Neu, chemistry
Basil I. Swanson, chemistry
William Hamilton Woodruff, chemistry