NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES - The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,662 and the total number of international members to 556. International members are nonvoting members of the Academy, with citizenship outside the United States.
Newly elected members of the UC Riverside College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences and their affiliations at the time of election are:
Mary L. Droser: Professor and department chair, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Riverside
Hailing Jin: Professor and plant molecular geneticist biology and Cy Mouradick Endowed Chair, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside