Umit Ozkan Named AAAS Fellow
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College of Engineering faculty member Umit S. Ozkan, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as one of the nine Ohio State faculty members earning the designation in 2011.
Ozkan received the honor for her distinguished contributions to the field of heterogeneous catalysis and its applications to energy and environmental protection and service to higher education as a teacher, mentor and administrator. In other recent honors, Ozkan received an Iowa State University Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering; received the John van Geuns Lectureship Award at the Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam; and was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and received that organization’s Mentorship Excellence Award.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science award is significant in that those faculty named are selected by peers within their disciplines who are members of the AAAS, the largest professional scientific organization in the world.
Ohio State University ranks among the top universities in the number of faculty who have been named as new Fellows of AAAS. Ohio State tied for second place along with two other institutions -- the University of Michigan and Iowa State University – out of 213 institutions whose faculty received this honor. Each had nine faculty named by the AAAS this week.
The University of California, Davis; University of California, Riverside and the University of Notre Dame all tied for first, each with 10 faculty named as new Fellows.
Ohio State has ranked first or second among institutions in the number of new Fellows named for each of the past nine years.
“These nine faculty members join a very distinguished group of Ohio State colleagues who are recognized around the world as key innovators and leaders in their fields,” said President E. Gordon Gee. “Each and every day, Ohio State is making discoveries, uncovering history, and exploring the depths of literally every form of human endeavor. Our AAAS fellows represent so many of the brightest stars in our constellation.”
With this year’s class, Ohio State tied with Michigan for having the most new faculty among Big Ten institutions named as Fellows, and among the nine benchmark institutions that Ohio State considers as its peers.
The new Fellows will be honored for their achievements in ceremonies during the annual meeting of the AAAS in Washington, D.C., in February.
Ozkan received the honor for her distinguished contributions to the field of heterogeneous catalysis and its applications to energy and environmental protection and service to higher education as a teacher, mentor and administrator. In other recent honors, Ozkan received an Iowa State University Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering; received the John van Geuns Lectureship Award at the Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam; and was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and received that organization’s Mentorship Excellence Award.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science award is significant in that those faculty named are selected by peers within their disciplines who are members of the AAAS, the largest professional scientific organization in the world.
Ohio State University ranks among the top universities in the number of faculty who have been named as new Fellows of AAAS. Ohio State tied for second place along with two other institutions -- the University of Michigan and Iowa State University – out of 213 institutions whose faculty received this honor. Each had nine faculty named by the AAAS this week.
The University of California, Davis; University of California, Riverside and the University of Notre Dame all tied for first, each with 10 faculty named as new Fellows.
Ohio State has ranked first or second among institutions in the number of new Fellows named for each of the past nine years.
“These nine faculty members join a very distinguished group of Ohio State colleagues who are recognized around the world as key innovators and leaders in their fields,” said President E. Gordon Gee. “Each and every day, Ohio State is making discoveries, uncovering history, and exploring the depths of literally every form of human endeavor. Our AAAS fellows represent so many of the brightest stars in our constellation.”
With this year’s class, Ohio State tied with Michigan for having the most new faculty among Big Ten institutions named as Fellows, and among the nine benchmark institutions that Ohio State considers as its peers.
The new Fellows will be honored for their achievements in ceremonies during the annual meeting of the AAAS in Washington, D.C., in February.
