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  • 7 IU faculty members named 2024 AAAS Fellows

7 IU faculty members named 2024 AAAS Fellows

Thursday, March 27, 2025

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, has named seven Indiana University faculty members to its 2024 fellows’ class, a lifetime honor within the scientific community.

The IU faculty are among 471 scientists, engineers and innovators who have been elected for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements throughout their careers. In total, 147 AAAS fellows are affiliated with IU. AAAS fellows are nominated by either the association’s steering groups or by three current fellows.

The 2024 IU fellows and their AAAS citations of merit are:

  • Elliot Androphy, professor of dermatology, of microbiology and immunology, and of anatomy, cell biology and physiology at the IU School of Medicine, for distinguished contributions to the field of neuroscience for his studies of spinal muscular atrophy that led to the first approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and advanced understanding of the pathogenesis of human papillomavirus infections.
  • Karen Bush, professor of practice emerita of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington, for distinguished contributions to microbiology, particularly for developing novel antimicrobial agents against Gram-negative bacteria and discovery of bacterial resistance mechanisms to beta-lactam antibiotics.
  • Amar Flood, professor of chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington, for contributions to understanding the nature of anion recognition, carbon-hydrogen bonding and ionic self-assembly culminating in the design of shape-persistent macrocycles, novel supramolecular architectures and advanced fluorescent materials.
  • Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Distinguished Professor and associate dean for research and development at the IU School of Education in Bloomington, for distinguished contributions to the learning sciences and science education, particularly for scholarship on advanced technology to support collaborative inquiry and problem-based learning in complex STEM domains.
  • Mark Kaplan, chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the IU School of Medicine, for distinguished contributions in the field of immunology, cytokine biology and insights into allergic disease.
  • Filippo Menczer, Luddy Distinguished Professor of Informatics and Computer Science at the IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering in Bloomington, for seminal contributions to web and data science, network science, computational social science, social media analytics, science of science, and modeling of complex information systems.
  • Sidney L. Shaw, professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington, for distinguished contributions toward understanding the plant cytoskeleton, and for innovative approaches to undergraduate research training.

“Each of these fellows is pushing the boundaries of human knowledge,” IU President Pamela Whitten said. “Just as important, they’re creating new opportunities for IU students and developing game-changing innovations. They embody the critical role IU research plays in creating a better world.”

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