Andrews One of Ten Rutgers Professors Named Fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science

November 22, 2016

Ten Rutgers professors have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor conferred on 381 other experts in the U.S. and abroad.

The fellows were chosen by their AAAS peers for efforts to advance science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished, according to the AAAS.

The new fellows will receive an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin at the AAAS Fellows Forum on Feb. 18, 2017. The forum will be held during the 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

Clinton J. Andrews is a a professor and associate dean for planning and new initiatives and also directs the Rutgers Center for Green Building at the Bloustein School. His research interests include the use of technical knowledge in environmental decision-making, environmental management, energy policy and the social science aspects of industrial ecology. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, a LEED-accredited professional and a licensed professional engineer.

The association cited Andrews for “distinguished contributions to the field of planning the built environment, particularly using simulation modeling to enhance public discourse on social implications of technological change.”

 

The other Rutgers professors are

Suzie Chen, Department of Chemical Biology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy

G. Charles Dismukes, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, and Waksman Institute of Microbiology

Henry B. John-Alder, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

Terri Goss Kinzy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Ah-Ng Tony Kong, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy

Peter Lobel, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Pal Maliga, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, and Waksman Institute of Microbiology

Christopher J. Molloy, Senior Vice President for Research and Economic Development

Monica Roth, Department of Pharmacology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

 

The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science as well as Science Translational Medicine, Science Signaling, a digital, open-access journal, Science Advances, Science Immunology, and Science Robotics. AAAS was founded in 1848 and includes nearly 250 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. The nonprofit AAAS  is open to all and fulfills its mission to “advance science and serve society” through initiatives in science policy, international programs, science education, public engagement and more. For the latest research news, log onto EurekAlert!, the premier science-news ebsite, a service of AAAS. See www.aaas.org.

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