Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and "smart" sprayer tech innovator, D. Ken Giles, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, Class of 2019.

The ten newly elected 2018 AAAS Fellows include, from top left to right, Professors Sean Burgess, Savrithramma Dinesh-Kumar, M. Saif Islam, Philip Kass, Carlito Lebrilla, Isaac Pessah, Eric Post, Michael Rogawski, J. Edward Taylor, and Steven Theg.

Sarah Stewart, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has been named a Class of 2019 MacArthur Fellow.

Chancellor Gary S. May was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering's Class of 2018.

Professor Jay Lund has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Simine Vazir, Associate Professor of Psychology, is recipient of a Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science, in the Leaders in Education category.

The Immigration Law Clinic was awarded the Justice Leadership Award from the Multi-Cultural Community Council.

Katia Vega, Assistant Professor of Design, was named in the "Top 20 Most Influential Latinos in Technology," by CNET en Español.

Professor Emerita of Law Angela Harris (left) was elected a member of the American Law Institute.

Assistant Professor Jamal Lewis of the Department of Biomedical Engineering has received an NIH Promising Young Investigator grant.

Kevin Johnson, Dean of the School of Law, received the Academic Leadership Award from the Hispanic National Bar Foundation. He was recently appointed to the American Bar Association's Accreditation Committee.

Alan Hastings, Distinguised Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, has been elected a fellow of the Society for Mathematical Biology.

Dean Tantillo, Professor of Chemistry, has been elected a fellow of the American Chemical Society.

Susan P. Harrison, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dean Jennifer S. Curtis, Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, has received the 2018 ASEE ChED CACHE Award for Excellence in Engineering Education.

Hsuan Hsu, Professor of English, Cecilia Tsu, Professor of History, and Charles Walker, Professor of History, have been elected fellows of the American Council of Learned Societies.