Society Awards and Honors
2006 Fellowships
Five PNNL Researchers Elected Fellows by AAAS
Each was elected Fellow in separate sections of the AAAS. Jim Fredrickson was elected a Fellow in biological sciences. Dick Smith and S. K. Sundaram were elected Fellows in the AAAS sections for chemistry and engineering, respectively. Bill Weber was elected a Fellow in physics, while John Zachara was elected in the AAAS section for geology and geography.
Election as an AAAS Fellow is determined by peer reviewers. Fellows are honored for "meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications." AAAS began honoring its distinguished members with the title of Fellow in 1874.
Jim Fredrickson is a Laboratory Fellow and the Chief Scientist in the Fundamental Science Directorate. He is being recognized for "leadership in the field of microbial ecology and environmental microbiology, with emphasis on subsurface microbiology and biogeochemistry."
He also serves as the Chief Scientist for DOE's Genomics: Genomes to Life program and is the Subprogram Coordinator for DOE's Subsurface Science Program. He has been with PNNL since 1985.
Dick Smith is a Battelle Fellow and Chief Scientist in FSD. He is being recognized for "leadership in analytical chemistry, specifically in the deployment of advanced separation methods with high-performance mass spectrometry for high-throughput proteomics."
He also serves as the director of the National Institute for Health Research Resource for Integrative Proteomics and is an adjunct professor of chemistry at Washington State University and the University of Utah; and an affiliate professor of chemistry at the University of Idaho.
S.K. Sundaram is the Chief Materials Scientist in the Environmental Technology Directorate. He is being recognized for "leadership and innovative contributions to a diverse cross-section of materials sciences, particularly new tools for synthesis and characterization of novel materials, diagnostics, and nanomaterials."
He joined PNNL in 1994 as a post-doctoral fellow and then as a senior research scientist in 1996. He was named chief materials scientist in 2002. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Mechanical and Materials engineering for WSU and has visiting appointments at MIT, Harvard, and Princeton.
Bill Weber is a Laboratory Fellow in FSD. He is being recognized for "leadership and innovative research on defects, ion-solid interactions, and radiation effects in ceramics, particularly modeling and simulations of radiation damage processes."
He joined PNNL in 1977. Currently he is the Team Leader for the Material Interfaces Group and serves as the Chair of PNNL's Council of Fellows and the laboratory's Publication Advisory Committee.
John Zachara is the Senior Chief Scientist for environmental chemistry in FSD. He is being recognized for "distinguished contributions to environmental science, particularly for his work on the chemical and microbial processes affecting subsurface contaminant transport at the Hanford site in Washington state.
He is a chief scientist for in-ground contaminants on the Hanford Remediation and Closure Science project and is a member of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory Advisory Committee.
All five honorees will be recognized at the Fellows Forum at the AAAS national meeting in San Francisco in February. They join 15 current Battelle staff members previously elected as AAAS Fellows. Founded in 1848, AAAS has worked to advance science for human well-being through its projects, programs and publications in the areas of science policy, science education and international scientific cooperation. Science magazine is the chief publication of the AAAS, reviewing and publishing many of the top research papers in the biological and physical sciences. Science was established by Thomas Edison in 1880, and has the highest paid circulation of any scientific journal in the world.
You can read more about these elections in the PNNL Newsroom. (announced 11/1/2006)