Posted 2 April, 2025
Four University of Iowa faculty members have been named 2024 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general-scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
Iowa’s recipients are Robert Piper, chair and departmental executive officer of anatomy and cell biology, and professor of internal medicine and molecular physiology and biophysics in the Carver College of Medicine; Clark Stanford, professor and dean of the College of Dentistry; Tina Tootle, chair and departmental executive officer in biology and professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and Joshua Weiner, associate dean for research and infrastructure and professor of biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and associate director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute.
The 2024 class of AAAS Fellows includes 471 scientists, engineers, and innovators from around the world who are recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements. The fellows are elected annually by the AAAS Council, which has been bestowing the honor on scientists since 1874.
Piper and Tootle were recognized for their work in the biological sciences field, Stanford in the dentistry and oral health field, and Weiner for neuroscience.