Members Elected as 2019 AAAS Fellows

December 11, 2019

Sigma Xi congratulates the 2019 class of Fellows from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)! In November 2019, the Council of AAAS elected 443 members as Fellows, and 105 of them are also Sigma Xi members. 

Election as a Fellow honors AAAS members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have distinguished them among their peers and colleagues. 

The following are the Sigma Xi members who were in the 2019 class of AAAS Fellows.

Section on Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources

Thomas Elmo Clemente, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Niklaus J. Grunwald, USDA-ARS
Kater Davis Hake, Cotton Incorporated
Susan J. Lamont, Iowa State University

Section on Anthropology

C. Michael Barton, Arizona State University
Susan Pfeiffer, University of Toronto (Canada)
Wenda Trevathan, New Mexico State University
Sander Ernst van der Leeuw, Arizona State University

Section on Astronomy

William Nielsen Brandt, Pennsylvania State University

Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Science

Kelly Kenison Falkner, National Science Foundation
Eric J. Steig, University of Washington

Section on Biological Sciences

Zhiqiang An, The University of Texas Health Science Center
William D. Beavis, Iowa State University
Andrew Biewener, Harvard University
Gail A. Bishop, University of Iowa
Kathryn L. Cottingham, Dartmouth College
Shane Crotty, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Steven A. Farber, Carnegie Institution for Science
Erica Golemis, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Christina M. Grozinger, Pennsylvania State University
Melina Elisabeth Hale, University of Chicago
Eileen Anne Hebets, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Eric Linke Hegg, Michigan State University
Cheryl A. Kerfeld, Michigan State University/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Laura S. Kubatko, The Ohio State University
Michael T. Madigan, Southern Illinois University
Louis James Maher, III, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Chuanbin Mao, University of Oklahoma
Emília P. Martins, Arizona State University
Robert T. Mason, Oregon State University
Craig Packer, University of Minnesota
Karin Pfennig, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kenneth D. Poss, Duke University Medical Center
Jeffrey C. Rathmell, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Wilson K. Rumbeiha, Iowa State University
Aleem Siddiqui, University of California, San Diego
Douglas Soltis, University of Florida
Andrew V. Suarez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton University

Section on Chemistry

Amanda C. Bryant-Friedrich, The University of Toledo
Julia Chan, The University of Texas at Dallas
Andrew C. Hillier, Iowa State University
Xuefei Huang, Michigan State University
Bart Kahr, New York University
Susan Richardson, University of South Carolina
George C. Shields, Furman University

Section on Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences

Carolyn W. Gibson, Penn Dental Medicine
Lynne A. Opperman, Texas A&M University College of Dentistry

Section on Education

Carol A. Brewer, University of Montana
Robert Hilborn, American Association of Physics Teachers
Marisa L. Pedulla, Montana Technological University

Section on Engineering

Rajeevan Amirtharajah, University of California, Davis
John Ballato, Clemson University
Ravi Bellamkonda, Duke University
Matthew Delisa, Cornell University
Carol Klein Hall, North Carolina State University
Wesley L. Harris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Guru Madhavan, National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Vinothan N. Manoharan, Harvard University
Eyad Masad, Texas A&M University/Texas A&M University at Qatar (Qatar)
Clare McCabe, Vanderbilt University
Achille Messac, Howard University
Randolph L. (Randy) Moses, The Ohio State University
G.R. Odette, University of California, Santa Barbara

Section on General Interest in Science and Engineering

Julia M. Gelfand, University of California, Irvine
John Charles Nemeth, Education and Research Consulting

Section on Geology and Geography 

Roland Bürgmann, University of California, Berkeley
Laura Crossey, University of New Mexico
Annette Summers Engel, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Christopher M. Fedo, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Patricia Soranno, Michigan State University


Section on Industrial Science and Technology

Ray H. Baughman, The University of Texas at Dallas
Willie E. May, Morgan State University
Ellen D. Williams, University of Maryland

Section on Information, Computing and Communication

Kevin W. Bowyer, University of Notre Dame
Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine
Roscoe C. Giles, Boston University
Donald W. Loveland, Duke University
Rob Rutenbar, University of Pittsburgh
Tao Xie, Peking University (China)

Section on Mathematics

David M. Bressoud, Macalester College
Kavita Ramanan, Brown University
Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University

Section on Medical Sciences

Robert D. Frisina, University of South Florida
James E. Klaunig, Indiana University
Kevin G. Osteen, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Dale Richman ("Rick") Sumner, Jr., Rush University Medical Center
David L. Zealear, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Section on Neuroscience

Tallie Z. Baram, University of California, Irvine
Robert F. Berman, University of California, Davis
Michael J. Friedlander, Virginia Tech
David L. Glanzman, University of California, Los Angeles
David J. Schulz, University of Missouri

Section on Pharmaceutical Sciences

Robert Clarke, Georgetown University
Neil Stahl, Regeneron

Section on Physics

Beverly K. Berger, National Science Foundation (retired)
Robert Caldwell, Dartmouth College
Jacqueline Krim, North Carolina State University
J. Ritchie Patterson, Cornell University
David S. Weiss, Pennsylvania State University

Section on Psychology

Richard Ivry, University of California, Berkeley
Sharon Landesman Ramey, Virginia Tech
Bethany Ann Teachman, University of Virginia

Section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering

William R. Moomaw, Tufts University

Section on Statistics

Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University

See the full list of 2019 AAAS Fellows on the AAAS website.  


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