Gladfelter, Kumar, Tolman elected AAAS Fellows

Wayne Gladfelter (chemistry), Vipin Kumar (computer science and engineering), and William Tolman (chemistry) were awarded the distinction of Fellow from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society. The faculty members are among 449 AAAS members receiving the award this year for efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.

Gladfelter was awarded for scientific research involving a cluster-based approach to inorganic chemistry, Kumar for his contributions to the field of high-performance computing and data mining, and Tolman for his contributions to the field of bioinorganic chemistry.