Ten professors have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the association announced today (Nov. 26). They are among 443 new fellows elected this year, honored for their efforts to advance science or its applications.
The new fellows will be formally recognized Feb. 15 at the AAAS annual meeting, to be held next year in Seattle.
These are the newly elected fellows from UC Davis:
Rajeevan Amirtharajah, professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Elected for distinguished contributions to the field of electronics design and engineering, particularly for developing integrated circuits and embedded systems that harvest energy from the environment.
Nicole Baumgarth, professor
Center for Comparative Medicine, and Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine
Elected for fundamental contributions to the literature of immunological mechanisms that regulate and control immunity to pathogens, and for service to the profession.
Robert F. Berman, professor
Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, and MIND Institute
Elected for distinguished contributions to the field of brain injury and neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly research on fetal alcohol syndrome, autism, and fragile X-associated disorders
Cristina Davis, professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
Elected for distinguished contributions to noninvasive chemical and biological sensing tools, algorithms, and applications for human and agriculture diagnostics and monitoring.
Jiming Jiang, professor
Department of Statistics, College of Letters and Science
Elected for fundamental contributions to statistical theory, methods and education, particularly in the fields of mixed effects models and small area estimation.
Thomas C.M. Lee, professor
Department of Statistics, College of Letters and Science
Elected for distinguished contributions to the field of statistics, particularly for inference, nonparametric and high dimensional problems and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Kai Liu, professor
Department of Physics, College of Letters and Science (and now at Georgetown University)
Elected for distinguished contributions to the field of nanomagnetism and spintronics, particularly for understanding of magnetic materials and nanostructures.
Dina St. Clair, professor
Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Science
Elected for distinguished contributions to the field of plant breeding and genetics, particularly the teaching and understanding of the dissection of quantitative traits in tomato species.
Sarah T. Stewart, professor
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, College of Letters and Science
Elected for distinguished work advancing the theory of how celestial collisions give rise to planets and moons, which provides a comprehensive basis for understanding planet formation.
Thomas P. Tomich, professor
Department of Environmental Science and Policy, College of Agricultural and Environmental Science, and director, Agricultural Sustainability Institute
Elected for extraordinary contributions to generating sustainable solutions to global food system security through environmental science, effective policy, and collaborative research partnerships with underdeveloped economies globally.
Founded in 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science and a number of related journals.