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Eight UC Irvine professors — whose work ranges from figuring out the nature of global warming to developing better biosensors — have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world’s oldest, largest and most distinguished scientific societies.
AAAS, which publishes the influential journal Science, announced the new fellows this week. The appointments increase the campus’ number of AAAS fellows to 87, giving the campus strong representation in an organization whose ranks, over the years, have included such luminaries as anthropologist Margaret Mead, biologist Stephen Jay Gould and Nobelist Leon Lederman.
The AAAS identified the eight new UCI fellows and their work this way:
Donald R. Blake, chemist: For unique insights into the chemistry of the lower atmosphere through the development and application of measurement techniques for trace gases down to ppt levels.
Robert M. Corn, chemist: For the development of new analytical methods including surface plasmon resonance to monitor biopolymer adsorption and the creation of adsorption based biosensors.
Jean-Luc Gaudiot, engineer. For distinguished contributions to the design and analysis of highly efficient multiprocessor and memory system architectures.
Michael T. Goodrich, engineer: For distinguished contributions to parallel and distributed algorithms for combinatorial and geometric problems, excellence in teaching, academic and professional service, and textbook writing.
Scott D. Rychnovsky, chemist: For pioneering contributions to the methodology of organic synthesis, the determination of structure of polyene macrolide antibiotics, and the total syntheses of complex natural products.
Athan J. Shaka, chemist: For the invention of new methods of NMR experiments and data analysis with applications to solution experiments from small molecules to very large proteins.
Suzanne B. Sandmeyer, biological chemistry: For distinguished contributions to molecular genetics, particularly for discovering the yeast retrotransposon, Ty3, and elucidating the mechanism by which it selects target sites.
Christine M. Gall, neurobiology & behavior and anatomy & neurobiology: For distinguished contributions to our understanding of the molecular basis for neuroplastic changes in the brain, including those regulated by growth factors.
