Four AS faculty members named AAAS fellows

Four Florida State University professors—all members of the faculty of the College of Arts & Sciences—have been named fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They are biologist P. Bryant Chase, physicist Laura Reina, and psychologists Alan Spector and Zuoxin Wang.

“The fact that these researchers come from across the scientific spectrum of our campus shows the breadth of excellence that Florida State has in the sciences among its faculty members,” said Kirby Kemper, vice president for Research.

The fellows were announced in the Dec. 23, 2011 issue of the journal Science and recognized at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C., Canada in February 2012.

Reina earned her award “for her distinguished contributions to the field of theoretical high-energy physics and in particular for precise calculations of particle production at the Tevatron (a circular particle accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago) and the Large Hadron Collider (the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland).”

Chase’s citation made note of “his distinguished contributions to muscle biology and biophysics, to interdisciplinary research including bionanotechnology, to education and mentoring, and for administration and service to the scientific community.”

The citation for Spector’s award praised him “for his distinguished contributions to the field of taste psychophysics … through behavioral and physiological methods.”

Wang’s was based on “his outstanding advances in our understanding of the neurobiology of social behavior.”

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