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AAAS - 2007 Fellows AAAS - 2007 Fellows http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/new_fellows.shtml Log In | Join | Search | Site Map | Contact Home About AAAS Programs Membership Publications News Career Support Mission | History | Organization | Fellows | Annual Meeting | Affiliates | Awards | Giving Advanced search AAAS Events & Links 6 Fellows AAAS Fellows AAAS Members Elected as Fellows Nomination Instructions Nomination Form In October, the AAAS Council elected 471 members as Fellows of AAAS. These individuals will be recognized for their contributions to science and technology at the Fellows Forum to be held on 16 February 2008 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston. The new Fellows will receive a certificate and a blue and gold rosette as a symbol of their distinguished accomplishments. Presented by section affiliation, they are: Section on Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources Lajpat R. Ahuja, U.S. Department of Agriculture J. Ole Becker, University of California, Riverside Henry Daniell, University of Central Florida Mark B. David, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Peter J. Hansen, University of Florida Andrew Hiatt, Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Inc. Zhanjiang Liu, Auburn University Steven A. Lommel, North Carolina State University Joyce Loper, U.S. Department of Agriculture John M. Norman, University of Wisconsin-Madison Jeffrey F. Pedersen, U.S. Department of Agriculture Robert E. Sharp, University of Missouri-Columbia David R. Shaw, GeoResources Institute, Mississippi State University Richard Stouthamer, University of California, Riverside Jeremy F. Taylor, University of Missouri-Columbia Barbara Valent, Kansas State University Robert Zeigler, International Rice Research Institute Section on Anthropology Alan H. Bittles, Edith Cowan University Peter T. Ellison, Harvard University Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Cleveland Museum of Natural History Richard F. Kay, Duke University Timothy Kohler, Washington State University Carl A. Maida, University of California, Los Angeles Sally McBrearty, University of Connecticut Stephen T. McGarvey, Brown University Medical School Dennis H. O'Rourke, University of Utah Peter J. Richerson, University of California, Davis Robert V. Riordan, Wright State University Lawrence M. Schell, University at Albany, State University of New York Sara Stinson, City University of New York, Queens College Linda D. Wolfe, East Carolina University Section on Astronomy Paul D. Feldman, The Johns Hopkins University John T. Gosling, University of Colorado Ronald Greeley, Arizona State University Carle M. Pieters, Brown University S. Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute John H. Thomas, University of Rochester Joel E. Tohline, Louisiana State University Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences Donald R. Blake, University of California, Irvine Judith A. Curry, Georgia Institute of Technology Russell R. Dickerson, University of Maryland Seyed M. Hassanizadeh, Utrecht University 1 of 7 2/14/2008 1:15 PM AAAS - 2007 Fellows http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/new_fellows.shtml Philip K. Hopke, Clarkson University Conway B. Leovy, University of Washington Dennis P. Lettenmaier, University of Washington W. Timothy Liu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Paul A. Mayewski, University of Maine Donald J. Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Section on Biological Sciences Farid E. Ahmed, East Carolina University John F. Alderete, University of Texas Health Science Center J. David Archibald, San Diego State University Steven E. Artandi, Stanford University School of Medicine Karen Artzt, University of Texas at Austin Laura D. Attardi, Stanford University Aimée H. Bakken, University of Washington Bonnie Bartel, Rice University Mark A. Batzer, Louisiana State University Philip W. Becraft, Iowa State University Marlene Belfort, University at Albany, State University of New York Judith Berman, University of Minnesota Stephen M. Beverley, Washington University School of Medicine Debashish Bhattacharya, University of Iowa Pamela J. Bjorkman, California Institute of Technology Jef D. Boeke, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Kathleen Boris-Lawrie, Ohio State University Toby Bradshaw Jr., University of Washington Steven P. Briggs, University of California, San Diego Morris J. Birnbaum, University of Pennsylvania Douglas G. Capone, University of Southern California Martin Chalfie, Columbia University Perng-Kuang Chang, U.S. Department of Agriculture Robert W. Chapman, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Ambrose L. Cheung, Dartmouth Medical School Sarah F. Covert, University of Georgia Elizabeth A. Craig, University of Wisconsin-Madison Larry B. Crowder, Duke University Marine Laboratory Michael R. Culbertson, University of Wisconsin-Madison Jim E. Cutler, Children's Hospital of New Orleans Salil K. Das, Meharry Medical College R. Kelly Dawe, University of Georgia Titia de Lange, Rockefeller University Raymond J. Deshaies, California Institute of Technology Ann E. Desjardins, U.S. Department of Agriculture Claude Desplan, New York University John F. X. Diffley, Cancer Research UK Machi F. Dilworth, National Science Foundation Walter H. Doerfler, Erlangen University Medical School William L. Duax, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Anindya Dutta, University of Virginia School of Medicine William C. Earnshaw, University of Edinburgh Walter Eckhart, Salk Institute Howard J. Edenberg, Indiana University School of Medicine David R. Engelke, University of Michigan Ellen H. Fanning, Vanderbilt University Robert L. Fischer, University of California, Berkeley Errol C. Friedberg, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School Elaine Fuchs, Rockefeller University Philip Furmanski, Rutgers University George M. Garrity, Michigan State University Sankar Ghosh, Yale University School of Medicine Stephen P. Goff, Columbia University Yale E. Goldman, University of Pennsylvania J. Eric Gouaux Jr., Oregon Health & Sciences University Barbara J. Graves, University of Utah Nig D.F. Grindley, Yale University Mary Lou Guerinot, Dartmouth College Thomas J. Guilfoyle, University of Missouri-Columbia James F. Gusella, Massachusetts General Hospital Gerald L. Hazelbauer, University of Missouri-Columbia Michael O. Hengartner, University of Zurich Robert K. Herman, University of Minnesota Craig S. Hood, Loyola University Steven C. Huber, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dan E. Hultmark, Umeå University Laurinda A. Jaffe, University of Connecticut Health Center Anthony C. Janetos, Joint Global Change Research Institute Lee F. Johnson, Ohio State University Samuel Kaplan, University of Texas-Houston Medical School Thomas C. Kaufman, Indiana University Ann P. Kinzig, Arizona State University Ivor T. Knight, Canon U.S. Life Sciences Mimi A.R. Koehl, University of California, Berkeley Leonid Kruglyak, Princeton University Robb Krumlauf, Stowers Institute for Medical Research Ira Michael Leffak, Wright State University School of Medicine Greg E. Lemke, Salk Institute for Biological Studies Maxine L. Linial, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 2 of 7 2/14/2008 1:15 PM AAAS - 2007 Fellows http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/new_fellows.shtml Carol D. Litchfield, George Mason University Stephen P. Long, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Michael Mallin, University of North Carolina, Wilmington Douglas A. Marchuk, Duke University Medical Center Robert P. Mecham, Washington University School of Medicine John M. Melack, University of California, Santa Barbara Jan A. Miernyk, U.S. Department of Agriculture Nancy A. Moran, University of Arizona Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, Kansas State University William C. Nierman, The Institute for Genomic Research Marit Nilsen-Hamilton, Iowa State University Kevin Padian, University of California, Berkeley David C. Page, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Ken N. Paige, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Leslie V. Parise, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill William R. Pearson, University of Virginia School of Medicine John R. Perfect, Duke University Medical Center Naomi E. Pierce, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology Helen M. Piwnica-Worms, Washington University School of Medicine Stephen Polasky, University of Minnesota Thomas M. Powell, University of California, Berkeley Jack Preiss, Michigan State University Daniel Promislow, University of Georgia Thomas C. Quinn, The Johns Hopkins University Tom A. Ranker, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Guritno Roesijadi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Peter P. Rogers, Harvard University Michael Rosbash, Brandeis University Amy C. Rosenzweig, Northwestern University Jack A. Roth, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center James E. Rothman, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Leona D. Samson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Suzanne B. Sandmeyer, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine Gottfried Schatz, University of Basel Randy W. Schekman, University of California, Berkeley Gertrud M. Schüpbach, Princeton University Thomas W. Scott, University of California, Davis Ganes C. Sen, Cleveland Clinic Foundation John Shanklin, Brookhaven National Laboratory Janet L. Smith, University of Michigan George F. Sprague, Jr., University of Oregon Peter J. Stambrook, University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center Thomas A. Steitz, Yale University Ursula B. Storb, University of Chicago F. William Studier, Brookhaven National Laboratory Jay A. Tischfield, Rutgers University Paula Traktman, Medical College of Wisconsin Michael J. Wade, Indiana University Kirk O. Winemiller, Texas
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