AAAS Selects Two University of Pittsburgh Faculty as
Fellows
PITTSBURGH—Two University of Pittsburgh faculty
members are among the 291 new 2002 American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows, AAAS announced
in the Oct. 25 edition of Science. New fellows will be
presented with an official certificate and a rosette pin
Feb. 15, during the 2003 AAAS Annual Meeting in Denver,
CO.
Pitt’s new AAAS Fellows follow.
• José-Marie Griffiths, the Doreen E. Boyce
Chair and Professor of Information Science, Library Science,
and Telecommunications and director of the Sara Fine Institute
for Interpersonal Behavior and Technology in Pitt’s
School of Information Sciences. She was nominated by the
AAAS section on information, computing, and communication.
AAAS selected Griffiths for her “leadership in information
science education and information policy and for research
in the economics and impacts of the changing scholarly
communication system.”
• Peter Wipf, professor in the Department of Chemistry
in the Faculty and College of Arts and Sciences, who was
nominated by the AAAS chemistry section. AAAS selected
Wipf for his “outstanding contributions to alkaloid
synthesis, heterocyclic and organometallic synthetic methodology
development, and combinatorial chemistry.”
Election as a fellow of AAAS is an honor bestowed upon
members by their peers. Potential new fellows are nominated
by AAAS steering groups, by the AAAS chief executive officer,
or by any three current fellows, as long as two of the
three are not affiliated with the same organization as
the nominee. The tradition of AAAS Fellows distinction
began in 1874.
Founded in 1848, the AAAS has worked to advance science
for human well-being through its projects, programs, and
publications in the areas of science policy, science education,
and international scientific cooperation. With more than
134,000 members from 130 countries and 272 affiliated
societies comprising more than 10 million individual members,
AAAS is the world’s largest federation of scientists.
The association also publishes Science, an editorially
independent, multidisciplinary, weekly peer-reviewed journal
that ranks among the world’s most prestigious scientific
journals.
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