December 11, 2018

Sigma Xi congratulates the 2018 class of Fellows from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)! In October 2018, the AAAS Council elected 416 members as Fellows, and 118 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 2018 class of AAAS Fellows. 

SECTION ON AGRICULTURE, FOOD, AND RENEWABLE RESOURCES
Robert J. Ferl, University of Florida
Elizabeth E. Hood, Arkansas State University
Carol A. Ishimaru, University of Minnesota
Jeffrey B. Jones, University of Florida
Bruce A. Kimball, USDA-ARS/The Greenleaf Group
Jianxin Ma, Purdue University
Ray Ming, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David M. Stelly, Texas A&M University/Texas A&M AgriLife Research

SECTION ON ANTHROPOLOGY
Benedikt Hallgrimsson, University of Calgary (Canada)
Sang-Hee Lee, University of California, Riverside
Fred H. Smith, Illinois State University
Andrea B. Taylor, Touro University
E. Christian Wells, University of South Florida
 
SECTION ON ASTRONOMY
Eric J. Chaisson, Harvard University
 
SECTION ON ATMOSPHERIC AND HYDROSPHERIC SCIENCE
Dennis A. Hansell, University of Miami
Upmanu Lall, Columbia University
 
SECTION ON BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Dean C. Adams, Iowa State University
Paul N. Black, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Holly M. Brown-Borg, University of North Dakota
Christopher G. Burd, Yale University School of Medicine
Robert S. Chapkin, Texas A&M University
Thomas L. Crisman, University of South Florida
Mary Dasso, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development/ NIH
Savithramma P. Dinesh-Kumar, University of California, Davis
John M. Drake, University of Georgia
Michael A. Gealt, Central Michigan University
James A. Guikema, Kansas State University
K. David Hambright, University of Oklahoma
Kyle Edward Harms, Louisiana State University
Fredric J. Janzen, Iowa State University
Terrance J. Kavanagh, University of Washington
Carla M. Koehler, University of California, Los Angeles
Iris Lindberg, University of Maryland, Baltimore
William H. McDowell, University of New Hampshire
Neil Osheroff, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
John T. Patton, Indiana University
Samuel Michael Scheiner, National Science Foundation
Jay Shendure, University of Washington
Katharine Nash Suding, University of Colorado Boulder
Allen Taylor, Tufts University
James Frances Anthony Traniello, Boston University
Charles Walcott, Cornell University
Claire E. Walczak, Indiana University
Joseph B. Yavitt, Cornell University
Jonathan P. Zehr, University of California, Santa Cruz
Baohong Zhang, East Carolina University
 
SECTION ON CHEMISTRY
Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt, Florida State University
Kara L. Bren, University of Rochester
Marcetta Y. Darensbourg, Texas A&M University
Xiangfeng Duan, University of California, Los Angeles
Teresa Fryberger, National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (Retired)
Robert (Barney) Grubbs, Stony Brook University
Wayne Charles Guida, University of South Florida
P. Shiv Halasyamani, University of Houston
William H. Hersh, Queens College of the City University of New York
Dimitris Katsoulis, The Dow Chemical Company
Aravinda (Arvind) M. Kini, U.S. Department of Energy (Retired)
Carlito B. Lebrilla, University of California, Davis
Zhiqun Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology
Todd B. Marder, Universität Würzburg (Germany)
Shelley D. Minteer, University of Utah
Janet Elizabeth Nelson, University of Idaho
Glenn D. Prestwich, University of Utah, College of Pharmacy
Stewart W. Schneller, Auburn University
  
SECTION ON DENTISTRY AND ORAL HEALTH SCIENCES
Robert C. Angerer, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research/NIH
Richard W. Valachovic, American Dental Education Association
  
SECTION ON EDUCATION
Jeffrey Bennett, Big Kid Science
Beth A. Cunningham, American Association of Physics Teachers
Ali Eskandarian, The George Washington University
Tamara S. Ledley, STEM Education Consultant, Earth and Climate Science
Jeffrey M. Osborn, The College of New Jersey
Nancy Pelaez, Purdue University
  
SECTION ON ENGINEERING
Narayana R. Aluru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Guillermo A. Ameer, Northwestern University
Craig H. Benson, University of Virginia
Shekhar Bhansali, Florida International University
Karen J.L. Burg, University of Georgia
Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University
Chang-Beom Eom, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ali Erdemir, Argonne National Laboratory
Venkat Ganesan, University of Texas at Austin
Joseph A. King, Jr. U.S. Department of Energy-ARPA-E
Satish Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering
Gregory V. Lowry, Carnegie Mellon University
Louis A. Martin-Vega, North Carolina State University
Athina P. Petropulu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
K.T. Ramesh, Johns Hopkins University
  
SECTION ON GENERAL INTEREST IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Tee Lamont Guidotti, The George Washington University Hospital
John Archie Pollock, Duquesne University
David J. Skorton, The Smithsonian Institution
  
SECTION ON GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY
Ann F. Budd, University of Iowa
Ethan L. Grossman, Texas A&M University
 
SECTION ON INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
David L. Morse, Corning Incorporated
William D. Phillips, National Institute for Standards and Technology
  
SECTION ON INFORMATION, COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION
David J. Farber, Keio University (Japan)
Peter Arthur Fox, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Vasant G. Honavar, Penn State
Huan Liu, Arizona State University
Patricia Morreale, Kean University
Lynne E. Parker, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
C. Raymond Perrault, SRI International
Amit P. Sheth, Wright State University
  
SECTION ON MATHEMATICS
George Em Karniadakis, Brown University
C.T. Kelley, North Carolina State University
David E. Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia)
 
SECTION ON MEDICAL SCIENCES
Henry Joseph Donahue, Virginia Commonwealth University
Wayne D. Newhauser, Louisiana State University/ Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
Lawrence I. Rothblum, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
L. David Sibley, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  
SECTION ON NEUROSCIENCE
Andrea G. Hohmann, Indiana University
Donata Oertel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health
  
SECTION ON PHYSICS
Wai-Yim Ching, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Timothy Edward Chupp, University of Michigan  

SECTION ON PSYCHOLOGY
Peter M. Todd, Indiana University
 
SECTION ON SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SCIENCES
Carter Tribley Butts, University of California, Irvine
Kathleen M. Heide, University of South Florida
    
SECTION ON STATISTICS
A. John Bailer, Miami University
Giovanni Parmigiani, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

See the full list of 2018 Fellows on the AAAS website.