Sashi Satpathy, other MU researchers awarded Fellow distinction by world’s largest scientific society

Three researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia have been awarded the distinction of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science, which announced the complete list of AAAS Fellows in its November 24, 2006, edition.

Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members for scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. This year, 449 members were awarded this AAAS honor.

Sashi Satpathy, professor of Physics, was awarded in the section on physics for his distinguished contributions to the physics of the electronic structure of solids, especially to the theory of strongly correlated oxides and their interfaces.

In addition to Professor Satpathy, two other MU researchers also are named Fellows: Peter A. Tipton, professor of Biochemistry in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources and the School of Medicine; and Carol V. Ward, associate professor in the Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences in the School of Medicinet.

The new Fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin Saturday, February 17, 2007, at the Fellows Forum at the 2007 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

The tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874. Currently, members can be considered for the rank of Fellow if nominated by the steering groups of the Association’s 24 sections or by any three Fellows who are current AAAS members (so long as two of the three sponsors are not affiliated with the nominee’s institution) or by the AAAS Chief Executive Officer. Each steering group then reviews the nominations of individuals within its respective section, and a final list is forwarded to the AAAS Council, which votes on the aggregate list.

AAAS was founded in 1848 and includes some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 1 million.

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Sashi Satpathy
Department of Physics and Astronomy