New York University Professors Danny Reinberg and Yuri Tschinkel have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon the association’s members by their peers.
“This year 401 members have been awarded this honor by AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications,” the association said in its announcement.
New Fellows will be honored in mid-February 2015 at the AAAS Fellows Forum during the 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Jose, Calif.
Reinberg, professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology at the NYU School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes medical Institute investigator, was cited by the AAAS for “distinguished contributions to the inter-related fields of transcription and chromatin, particularly for biochemical characterization of complex chromatin regulators and the determination of epigenetic states.”
Tschinkel, a professor of mathematics at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, was cited for “outstanding research in algebraic geometry and number theory and dedicated service as the director of mathematics and the physical sciences at the Simons Foundation.”
Tschinkel leads the Foundation’s Mathematics and the Physical Sciences division.
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