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Four University of Connecticut faculty members have been elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to its newest class of fellows. The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
The four are:
- Emmanouil Anagnostou, the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Eversource Energy Endowed Chair in Environmental Engineering.
- Diane Lillo-Martin, a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Linguistics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
- Jeffrey McCutcheon, the General Electric Professor of Advanced Manufacturing in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering.
- Mark Adams, a professor and interim scientific director at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine and an affiliated faculty in the School of Medicine’s Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences.
Anagnostou is the founder and former director of the Eversource Energy Center and one of the applied research directors of the Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (CIRCA). Anagnostou’s research efforts focus on remote sensing of water cycle and integrating earth observations with models for improving water cycle predictability at global scale. He explores severe weather events and leveraging advanced technologies to predict the impact on communities and the natural and built environments. Anagnostou is the executive director of the UConn Tech Park and the Institute of Environment and Energy.
Lillo-Martin’s research examines how the human mind acquires spoken and sign languages, with a focus on language development in young children. She has been a member of the UConn faculty since 1986, has served multiple terms as head of the Department of Linguistics, and was named a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in 2009.
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