Three Texas A&M Professors Elected AAAS Fellows

Three Texas A&M University faculty members have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Professors Peter Kuchment, Doodipala Samba Reddy and Haiyan Wang.

Election as a AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. Their selections were announced in the current issues of Science, the AAAS journal, and they will be formally honored Feb. 13, 2016, at the annual meeting of the association in Washington, D.C.

Kuchment is a University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics in the College of Science. The AAAS announcement of his selection cited his “distinguished contributions to analysis and mathematical physics, including mathematical techniques for medical imaging.”

Reddy, Professor of Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics in the Texas A&M Health Science Center, was cited by AAAS “for pioneering contributions to the field of pharmacology as exemplified by sustained discoveries of substantial impact in pharmaceutical sciences.”

Wang, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Dwight Look College of Engineering, received her AAAS honor “for innovative research at the frontiers of materials science and technology, and for exceptional potential to shape the future through intellectual leadership and inspired teaching.”

“I am proud to join the AAAS in recognizing these faculty and their outstanding accomplishments,” said Dr. Karan L. Watson, provost and executive vice president.

The tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874. Currently, members can be considered for the rank of Fellow if nominated by the steering groups of the Association’s 24 sections, or by any three Fellows who are current AAAS members (so long as two of the three sponsors are not affiliated with the nominee’s institution), or by the AAAS chief executive officer. Fellows must have been continuous members of AAAS for four years by the end of the calendar year in which they are elected.

AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science as well as Science Translational Medicine and Science Signaling. AAAS was founded in 1848, and includes 254 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 1 million. The non-profit AAAS (www.aaas.org) is open to all and fulfills its mission to “advance science and serve society” through initiatives in science policy, international programs, science education, and more.