IRVINE : 9 at UCI Elected to Science Association

Nine UC Irvine professors have been elected as fellows of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science, university officials have announced.

The new members include William Sirignano, dean of UCI’s School of Engineering; Dennis Cunningham, chairman of the department of microbiology and molecular genetics; Timothy Bradley, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Hung Fan and Edward Wagner, who are both professors of molecular biology and biochemistry.

Also elected were George Gutman, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics; Eloy Rodriguez, professor of developmental and cell biology; Nathan Rynn, professor of physics, and Chen Tsai, professor of electrical and computer engineering.

The fellows, who were selected by the AAAS’s governing council, will receive certificates from noted UCI environmental chemist F. Sherwood Rowland, who is the current president of the association.

Founded in 1848, AAAS has 134,000 members and is the world’s largest general science association. It publishes the weekly journal Science.

“The AAAS fellows elected from UCI this year is unprecedented,” acting UCI Chancellor L. Dennis Smith said. “(It) speaks well of the caliber of our faculty and the scientific research being conducted here.”