{"351441":{"#nid":"351441","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Three Tech Faculty Named AAAS Fellows","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has named three Georgia Tech professors as 2014 Fellows.\u0026nbsp;AAAS is the world\u2019s largest general scientific society, and election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the new AAAS Fellows comes from the College of Engineering and two come from the College of Sciences. The Fellows were announced in the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScience\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand will be honored at the Fellows Forum, held Feb. 14, 2015, at the AAAS Annual Meeting in San Jose, California.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new AAAS Fellows at Georgia Tech are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/faculty\/jones\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristopher W. 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