{"75491":{"#nid":"75491","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Four Georgia Tech Faculty Named AAAS Fellows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has named four Georgia Tech professors as 2011 Fellows.\u0026nbsp;AAAS is the world\u2019s largest general scientific society, and the election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThree of the new AAAS Fellows at Georgia Tech hail from the College of Engineering and one is on the faculty in the College of Computing. The Fellows were announced today in the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E and will be honored at the Fellows Forum, held Feb. 18 at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new AAAS Fellows at Georgia Tech are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAli Adibi,\u003C\/strong\u003E professor of electrical and computer engineering, who was honored for his \u201cdistinguished contributions to the fields of integrated nanophotonics, photonic crystals, and volume holography.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Bader\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor of computational science and engineering in the College of Computing, who earned the distinction for \u201cdistinguished contributions to the field of computational science and engineering.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Butera\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor of electrical and computer engineering who also holds a joint appointment in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, was named Fellow \u201cfor advances in computational neuroscience and neurotechnology, promoting engineering through society, editorial, and university leadership, and contributing to STEM policy and educational initiatives.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Steffes\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor of electrical and computer engineering, who earned the distinction for \u201ccontributions to the understanding of planetary atmospheres through innovative microwave measurements.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAAAS is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. AAAS publishes the journal \u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E as well as many scientific newsletters, books and reports, and spearheads programs that raise the bar of understanding for science worldwide. The four Georgia Tech faculty members were among 539 Fellows elected by the AAAS Council in November.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has named four Georgia Tech professors as 2011 Fellows.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The American Association for the Advancement of Science has named four Georgia Tech professors as 2011 Fellows."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2011-12-23 10:05:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:53","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-12-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-12-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73936":{"id":"73936","type":"image","title":"Ali Adibi","body":null,"created":"1449178028","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:08","changed":"1475894683","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:43"},"50723":{"id":"50723","type":"image","title":"David Bader","body":null,"created":"1449175437","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:57","changed":"1475894471","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:11","alt":"David Bader","file":{"fid":"128822","name":"david-bader.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/david-bader_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/david-bader_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":11717,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/david-bader_1.jpg?itok=ii5PugBG"}},"70369":{"id":"70369","type":"image","title":"Robert Butera","body":null,"created":"1449177304","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:15:04","changed":"1475894618","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:38"},"69139":{"id":"69139","type":"image","title":"Paul Steffes","body":null,"created":"1449177239","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:59","changed":"1475894604","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:24"}},"media_ids":["73936","50723","70369","69139"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/","title":"American Association for the Advancement of Science"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"16181","name":"AAAS Fellows; Ali Adibi; David Bader; Robert Butera; Paul Steffes; College of Engineering; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering; College of Computing;"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["klipp@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}