Former ICPSR Council Member Chandra Muller Named 2024 AAAS Fellow
Congratulations to former ICPSR Council Member Chandra Muller (University of Texas at Austin), who has been named a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
A tradition dating back to 1874, election as an AAAS Honorary Fellow is a lifetime honor, and all Fellows are expected to maintain the highest standards of professional ethics and scientific integrity. AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and the publisher of the Science family of journals.
"Chandra Muller is a sociologist whose current research focuses on how education shapes population health. She is currently leading two nationally representative, longitudinal studies — High School and Beyond (HS&B) and the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972 (NLS-72) — that follow people first interviewed as high school students into later life to better inform interventions that could improve cognitive function and prevent or delay Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She is a member of the National Academy of Education and the Sociological Research Association, and she is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association." (via America Association for the Advancement of Science/UT News)
Muller, is among 471 Scientists and Engineers, including ICPSR Director Maggie Levenstein, named as Honorary Fellows for 2024.
“This year’s class of Fellows are the embodiment of scientific excellence and service to our communities,” said Sudip S. Parikh, PhD, AAAS chief executive officer and executive publisher of the Science family of journals. “At a time when the future of scientific enterprise in the US and around the world is uncertain, their work demonstrates the value of sustained investment in science and engineering.”
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Apr 4, 2025