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In a sign of the growing quality of the faculty, 20 UC Irvine professors have been elected fellows of  the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation’s oldest — and one of its most revered — scientific organizations.

UCI had more people elected to the AAAS than any other university or institution in the United States,  and saw its number of AAAS members rise from 85 to 105 overnight.

Astrophysicist James Bullock. Image by Daniel Anderson, UCI

“I am overwhelming honored by this, especially when you consider the other people on the list,” said James Bullock, a 36-year-old UCI astrophysicist who studies the Milky Way in context to other galaxies. (Click here for video of Bullock explaining his research)

The AAAS, which was founded in 1848 and publishes the prestigious journal Science, also elected:

Pierre Baldi, Chancellor’s Professor and Institute for Genomics & Bioinformatics director
James S. Bullock, physics & astronomy associate professor
Dr. Paolo Casali, Donald Bren Professor of Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Medicine, and Center for Immunology director
Said Elghobashi, mechanical & aerospace engineering professor
William J. Evans, chemistry professor
Brandon S. Gaut, ecology & evolutionary biology professor and chair
Charles G. Glabe, molecular biology & biochemistry professor
Zhibin Guan, chemistry professor
James W. Hicks, ecology & evolutionary biology professor
Fadi J. Kurdahi, electrical engineering & computer science professor
Dr. Arthur D. Lander, developmental & cell biology professor and chair
Rachel W. Martin, molecular biology & biochemistry assistant professor
Douglas L. Mills, physics & astronomy professor
Laurence D. Mueller, ecology & evolutionary biology professor
Diane K. O’Dowd, anatomy & neurobiology professor
Michael R. Rose, ecology & evolutionary biology professor
Henry W. Sobel, physics & astronomy professor
Oswald Steward, Reeve-Irvine Chair in Spinal Cord Injury Research
Adam P. Summers, ecology & evolutionary biology associate professor
Steven R. White, physics & astronomy professor

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