Mary Anne Handel of The Jackson Laboratory named AAAS Fellow
| Date: December 17, 2009 |
Washington D.C. -- Mary Ann Handel of The Jackson Laboratory has been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow. Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by their peers.
As part of the Section on Biological Sciences, Dr. Handel was elected as an AAAS Fellow for "distinguished contributions to the understanding of mammalian gametogenesis and its genes, and service to reproductive biology research, including as Editor-in-Chief of Biology of Reproduction."
"This is a most well-deserved honor," says Jackson Laboratory President and CEO Rick Woychik, Ph.D. "Mary Ann is not only a distinguished scientist in her field of reproductive genetics, but she is also a generous mentor and collaborator."
This year 531 members have been awarded this honor by AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. New Fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin on Saturday, Feb. 20 from 8 to 10 a.m. at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the 2010 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Diego.
This year's AAAS Fellows will be announced in the AAAS News & Notes section of the journal Science on Dec. 18.
Dr. Handel is the only Mainer on the list of 2009 AAAS Fellows. She joins Jackson Laboratory Professor and Executive Research Fellow Kenneth Paigen, as well as Bar Harbor residents Julius R. Krevans, M.D., a Trustee Emeritus of the Laboratory, and Acadia Institute President Judith P. Swayze in holding the distinction.
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.
The Council is the policymaking body of the Association, chaired by the AAAS president, and consisting of the members of the board of directors, the retiring section chairs, delegates from each electorate and each regional division, and two delegates from the National Association of Academies of Science.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society, and publisher of Science, as well as Science Translational Medicine and Science Signaling. 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. The non-profit AAAS is open to all and fulfills its mission to "advance science and serve society" through initiatives in science policy; international programs; science education; and more.
The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution based in Bar Harbor, Maine, with a facility in Sacramento, Calif. Its mission is to discover the genetic basis for preventing, treating and curing human diseases, and to enable research and education for the global biomedical community.
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