Dr. Christine Schmidt, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS http://www.aaas.org/), the world’s largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science. “AAAS fellows are elected by their peers, and fewer than 1 percent of the association’s members are elected each year. Fellows are selected for their efforts to advance science or scientific applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.” New AAAS Fellows will be inducted in Boston on February 16, 2013 during the AAAS Annual Meeting.