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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems\nEngineering, joins \u003Cstrong\u003EDon Giddens\u003C\/strong\u003E, dean\nof the College of Engineering (COE), and four other distinguished faculty\nmembers named Fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of\nScience (AAAS).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAAAS is the world\u2019s largest general scientific society, and the election as\na Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThomas, who also holds a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy in\nthe Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, was honored \u201cfor sustained commitment\nto combining science policy with innovative interdisciplinary research in\nindustrial ecology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGiddens, a biomedical engineering professor in the Coulter Department, was\nhonored \u201cfor significant contributions to our understanding of the role of\nhemodynamics in cardiovascular pathobiology and for leadership of engineering\neducation nationally.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to Thomas and Giddens, three of the six new Fellows at Georgia\nTech also hail from the College of Engineering; one is on the faculty in the\nCollege of Sciences\u2019 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. They include the\nfollowing:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGilda A. Barabino\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate chair for graduate studies and\nprofessor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at\nGeorgia Tech and Emory, who was honored \u201cfor distinguished contributions to\ntissue engineering research and education, as well as for enhancing the\nparticipation of underrepresented groups in scientific fields.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStephen P. DeWeerth\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor of biomedical engineering at\nthe Coulter Department, who earned the distinction \u201cfor contributions in the\nfield of neuroengineering, particularly for the real-time modeling of\nsensorimotor systems and for the development of neural interfacing technology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoseph W. Perry\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor of physical, polymer and\nmaterials chemistry and optical science, who was honored \u201cfor distinguished\ncontribution to the understanding, development and application of organic\nmaterials for third-order nonlinear optics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZhuomin Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor of mechanical engineering, who was\nawarded the Fellow distinction \u201cfor advancing thermal radiation research and\nits applications in temperature measurement, promoting education in nano- and\nmicro-scale heat transfer and serving professional societies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ENew Fellows will be honored at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the upcoming 2011\nAAAS Annual Meeting to be held on February 19\u003Csup\u003E, \u003C\/sup\u003E2011, in Washington,\nD.C.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EValerie Thomas, Anderson Interface associate professor\nof natural systems in the H. 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