American Association for the Advancement of Science
Professor Sheng Luan has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon members of the organization by their peers.
This year 702 members have been awarded this honor because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
Sheng Luan is a professor in the Department of Plant & Microbial Biology. He is being specifically recognized for distinguished contributions to the field of plant cell signaling, and for distinguished service to the plant biology community as founding editor-in-chief of Molecular Plant.
For more about Sheng Luan's research please visit his faculty page on this site at pmb.berkeley.edu/profile/sluan
New Fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin in February during the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.
Tradition
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.
Each steering group then reviews the nominations of individuals within its respective section and a final list is forwarded to the AAAS Council, which votes on the aggregate list.
Other fellows just named at UC Berkeley include:
- Kunxin Luo - For contributions to the field of signal transduction in cancer and aging, particularly for identification and characterization of novel regulators of TGF-β and p53 pathways.
- Eric Norman - For distinguished contributions to nuclear science and applications to national security, and high commitment to public education and outreach, particularly following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
- Evan Williams -For distinguished contributions to physical chemistry and mass spectrometry, particularly for development and application of new methods for determining ion structure and energetics.
More About the Association
The American Association for the Advancement of Science 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 261 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.