{"id":74345,"date":"2018-07-18T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=74345"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T14:42:46","slug":"professors-elected-aaas-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2018\/07\/18\/professors-elected-aaas-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Professors Elected AAAS Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two professors, both with divisions affiliations, cited for advancing science<\/h2>\n
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By Liz Sheeley and Sara Rimer
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Joyce Y. Wong, professor of biomedical engineering. Photo by Frank Curran for Boston University Photography. Eric D. Kolaczyk, professor of mathematics and statistics. Photo courtesy of Kolaczyk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science<\/a> (AAAS) has named two Boston University faculty members\u2014Professor Joyce Y. Wong<\/a> (MSE, BME) and College of Arts and Sciences Professor Eric D. Kolaczyk<\/a> (SE, Math)\u2014as 2017 fellows.<\/p>\n

Wong and Kolaczyk are among 396 researchers<\/a> across the US who were awarded the distinction of fellow for 2017 \u201cbecause of their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished,\u201d according to the AAAS.<\/p>\n

The AAAS cited Wong\u2019s \u201cinnovative discoveries in biomaterials development to probe how structure, material properties, and composition of cell-biomaterial interfaces modulate fundamental cellular processes, and for promoting women in STEM.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am honored to be an AAAS fellow,\u201d says Wong, who is also a fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society and of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. \u201cThe AAAS has always led the charge in standing for what is right in science, even when it wasn\u2019t popular.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wong\u2019s research focuses on enabling early detection and treatment of human disease using biomaterials. Her lab is creating new materials for doctors to use in blood vessel reconstruction in children.<\/p>\n

Wong was also recognized for her work as the founding director of ARROWS<\/a> (Advance, Recruit, Retain & Organize Women in STEM), a BU organization that helps connect, mentor, and advocate for women in science and serves as an umbrella group for smaller cohorts on campus that are focused on women in STEM.<\/p>\n

Kolaczyk, who directs the CAS statistics program, was cited for \u201cdistinguished contributions to statistical methods for multi-scale analysis and network analysis, and for impactful collaborative work in the physical and life sciences.\u201d He is also a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, an elected senior member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to have been elected a fellow of the AAAS,\u201d says Kolaczyk. \u201cI\u2019ve had the pleasure of working with tremendous colleagues across a wide array of disciplines, particularly in computational biology, computer network traffic analysis, and, most recently, computational neuroscience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new fellows will be recognized on February 17, 2018, at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the 2018 AAAS annual meeting in Austin, Tex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joyce Wong (BME, MSE) and Eric Kolaczyk (CAS, SE) were elected 2017 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14791,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,909,910],"tags":[364,320,501,502,367,244,500],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161393,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74345\/revisions\/161393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}