The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society.
Four University of Connecticut faculty members have been elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to its newest class of fellows. The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
The four are:
* Bahram Javidi, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in the School of Engineering
* James Magnuson, a professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
* Wolfgang Peti, a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics at UConn School of Medicine
* Anthony Vella, a professor and chair of the Department of Immunology at UConn School of Medicine and the Senior Associate Dean for Research Planning and Coordination