{"71604":{"#nid":"71604","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AAAS Names Four to Fellows List","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFour Georgia Tech faculty members were named American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows for 2007. Honored for their outstanding social or scientific efforts were Judith Curry, Randall Engle, Cheryl Leggon and Rick Trebino.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s always nice to be honored by your peers,\u0022 said Curry, chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. \u0022Overall, it adds to the prestige of the Institute when you have a number of fellows named.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECurry was recognized for her work in both the relationships between global climate change and hurricane intensity and for her contributions that led to understanding feedbacks in the Arctic system. She was named a fellow in the American Geophysical Union in 2004 and in the American Meteorological Society in 1995.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I am always a little surprised by such things,\u0022 said Engle, School of Psychology Chair and associate dean for the College of Sciences. \u0022For me, [this distinction] helps us to convey that there is a science of psychology that plays a crucial role in the community of scientists.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEngle was recognized for his work in understanding the nature of working memory and individual differences. \u0022I look at our amazing young faculty and the incredible senior people we have hired in the Institute in recent years and I am struck by how good we have become and how much talent there is here [at Georgia Tech].\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I deeply appreciate this recognition of my work,\u0022 she said. \u0022My orientation to research has always been policy and practice in terms of making a difference in individual lives as well as transforming institutions. This is not only important nationally, but globally, as who is not \u0027at the table\u0027 is as significant as who is.\u0022 In 2006, Leggon was elected to membership in Sigma Xi, an honorary scholarly society.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPhysics Professor Trebino credited the work of many in receiving this honor. \u0022It means that many grad students, post-docs, and others who have worked with my group over the years have done a very nice job making my ideas-as well as their own-happen,\u0022 he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe was honored for the development of techniques and devices for measuring ultrashort laser pulses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022My group\u0027s work impacts the wide range of fields that use these pulses, from biology to physics to manufacturing, and [the] AAAS Fellowship acknowledges this wide impact.\u0022 Trebino is a 2006 Fellow of the American Physical Society and a 1999 Optical Society of America Fellow. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAAAS is the world\u0027s largest general scientific society. The 471 AAAS Fellows for 2007 were named in the News \u0026amp; Notes section of the Oct. 26 edition of the journal Science and will be honored at the Fellows Forum Feb. 16, 2008. In 2006, four members of Tech\u0027s community were named AAAS Fellows; six were named in 2005.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Four Georgia Tech faculty members were named American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows for 2007. 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