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University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) researchers Ravi Sandhu, Ph.D. and Miguel J. Yacaman, Ph.D. have been awarded the distinction of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, an elected honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.
Sandhu, professor and Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair in Cyber Security, serves as the executive director for UTSA's Institute for Cyber Security. Yacaman is a UTSA professor and chair of its Physics and Astronomy Department.
This year, 486 members have been awarded the honor of Fellow by the AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. Sandhu and Yacaman will each be presented with an official certificate and a gold rosette pin on Saturday, February 14, 2009 from 8-10 a.m. at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the 2009 AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago.
This year's AAAS Fellows will be announced in the AAAS News & Notes section of the journal Science on Dec. 19, 2008.
As part of the Section on Information, Computing and Communication, Sandhu was elected to be an AAAS fellow "for distinguished contributions to cyber security, including seminal role-based access control and usage control models, and for professional leadership in research journals and conferences."
As part of the Section on Physics, Yacaman was elected to be an AAAS fellow "for his many contributions in nanotechnology and materials science, and in improving education and research in physics in Latin America, particularly in Mexico."
The tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874. Currently, members can be considered for the rank of Fellow if nominated by the steering groups of the Association's 24 sections, by any three Fellows who are current AAAS members (so long as two of the three sponsors are not affiliated with the nominee's institution) or by the AAAS chief executive officer.
Each steering group then reviews the nominations of individuals within its respective section and a final list is forwarded to the AAAS Council, which votes on the aggregate list.
The Council is the policymaking body of the Association, chaired by the AAAS president, and consists of the members of the board of directors, the retiring section chairs, delegates from each electorate and each regional division and two delegates from the National Association of Academies of Science.
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