Two UMaine Professors Elected AAAS Fellows
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ORONO — University of Maine professors Edward Grew and Paul Mayewski are among 471 scientists named today AAAS Fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Both are professors in UMaine’s Dept. of Earth Sciences. Mayewski is also director of the Climate Change Institute at UMaine.
Members are elected by their peers, in recognition of “meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications.,” according to the AAAS official description. New fellows are selected following a nomination process that includes thorough review by the association’s steering groups.
“Ed and Paul are richly deserving of this honor, which reflects well on them and on the University of Maine,” says Michael Eckardt, UMaine’s vice president for research. “They are recognized leaders in their academic disciplines and each has a long, distinguished history of working to advance scientific understanding of the World around us.”
Grew was recognized for “distinguished research on the role of lithium, beryllium, and boron in metamorphism at high temperatures and pressures, with emphasis on the Precambrian of Antarctica.” Mayewski’s citation noted his “seminal contributions to our understanding of climate change through ice and snow studies.”
Mark David, a professor and department head at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who earned a master’s degree from UMaine, is also among the new fellows announced today by AAAS.