Eight scientists and engineers from the 天美影视传媒 have been elected this year to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. According to a released July 15 by the organization, the new members were selected for 鈥渢heir outstanding record of scientific and technical achievement and their willingness to work on behalf of the Academy to bring the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.鈥�
In all, UW professors make up one-third of the 24 new members, who will be formally inducted in September during an annual meeting at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
Elected by current members of the Washington State Academy of Sciences:
- , professor of environmental and occupational health sciences
- , associate dean for faculty affairs and professor in the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance
- , professor of chemistry
- , professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate vice provost of research
- , professor and chair of mechanical engineering
- , professor of physics at the UW Institute for Nuclear Theory
- , professor of pharmacology and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
Additionally, , professor of atmospheric sciences and of applied mathematics, was elected to the state academy by virtue of his election into the National Academy of Sciences.