Jan. 13, 2011
TweetAAAS honors Iowa State, Ames Lab researchers for distinguished science
by Mike Krapfl, News Service
Nine researchers from Iowa State -- two of them are also affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory -- have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
The new AAAS fellows and their award citations are:
Srinivas Aluru, Ross Martin Mehl and Marylyne Munas Mehl Professor of
Computer Engineering
"For distinguished contributions to high performance computational
biology, particularly for enabling large-scale genome analysis and
systems biology through creation and application of novel parallel
methods."
Bryony Bonning, professor of entomology
"For distinguished contributions to research and teaching in the fields
of insect virology, baculoviruses, insect pathology and insect molecular
biology."
Steven Fales, professor of agronomy
"For distinguished contributions to agricultural science through
administrative leadership, and service to professional/scientific
societies and industry."
Karl Gschneidner Jr., Anson Marston Distinguished Professor
in materials science and Engineering and senior metallurgist for the
Ames Laboratory
"For distinguished contributions to fundamental studies of the
rare-earth elements, and their applications."
Tom Holme, professor of chemistry
"For distinguished contributions to chemistry education through
developing assessments as a researcher and as the director of the
American Chemical Society Examinations Institute."
Patrick Schnable, Baker Professor of Agronomy, professor of
genetics, development and cell biology and director of the Center for
Plant Genomics and the Center for Carbon Capturing Crops
"For distinguished contributions to our understanding of the structure,
function and dynamics of the maize genome and the development of genomic
tools and resources."
Patricia Thiel, Distinguished Professor in chemistry and a
faculty scientist for the Ames Laboratory
"For increasing the level of understanding of surface properties of
metallic quasicrystals, and for work on pathways by which metallic
nanoclusters and thin films form and rearrange on metal surfaces."
John Verkade, University Professor of chemistry
"For distinguished contributions to the organic catalysis field through
synthesis of new organophosphorus catalysts for important organic
reactions, and for distinguished service to the American Chemical
Society."
Jonathan Wendel, professor and chair of ecology, evolution
and organismal biology
"For distinguished contributions to our understanding of the phylogeny
and genome evolution of higher plants, particularly the evolutionary
fate of genes duplicated by polyploidy."
The nine researchers are among 503 association members who will be named fellows at the association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 19. The award recognizes "scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications."
AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science.
