Two Huck Institutes faculty members named AAAS Fellows
Consuelo De Moraes and Steven Schiff honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Entrance to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Photograph by Matthew Bisanz via Wikimedia Commons.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science.
Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers.
This year, 539 Fellows were selected for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
- Dr. De Moraes was named a Fellow for contributions to the fields of entomology and chemical ecology, particularly with regard to research on plant-insect interactions.
- Dr. Schiff is honored for contributions to the interface of neuroscience, physics, engineering, and medicine, and in particular the applications of control engineering to dynamical diseases of the brain.
The Fellows will receive certificates and pins on February 18, 2012 at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.
More about the honorees
Dr. Consuelo M. De Moraes
Dr. De Moraes is a professor of entomology at Penn State University, and is a faculty member of the Huck Institutes’ graduate programs in ecology and plant biology, also participating in the Huck Institutes’ graduate training program in microbial genomics.
Dr. Steven J. Schiff
Dr. Schiff is the director of the Penn State Center for Neural Engineering, Brush Chair Professor of Engineering, and a professor of neurosurgery, engineering science and mechanics, and physics, as well as being a co-funded faculty member of the Huck Institutes’ graduate program in neuroscience.
