28 November 2014
Edited by Kathy Wren
As science grows in China, ethics education aims to keep up
Graduate students attend a public lecture on research ethics at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing.
PHOTO: CHINA ASSOCIATION FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (CAST)
A massive national effort in China to improve scientific integrity has brought the issue to the attention of a staggering number of researchers in that country: In less than 4 years, more than 8 million undergraduate and graduate students have listened to 20,000 lectures on the topic.
But experts at a recent meeting held at AAAS said that ethics education should start even earlier for Chinese and American researchers and that such education faces stiff challenges from a research environment that, in some instances, serves as a breeding ground for authorship disputes and misuse of data, among other problems.
With international scientific collaborations on the rise, the issue of integrity is increasingly important, the meeting's participants agreed. “The only way the scientific enterprise can contribute to worldwide problems is for…scientists to be willing, able, and enthusiastic about collaborating on a worldwide scale,” said AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner. “Central to any collaboration are issues like trust, shared values, norms, and standards that drive the practice.”
The China-U.S. Scientific Morality/Integrity Development Seminar was the fourth such meeting convened since the Scientists' Social and Ethical Responsibilities conference organized by the China Association for Science & Technology (CAST) and AAAS in 2007. Since then, CAST and AAAS have collaborated on several workshops on scientific integrity, and in 2010 established a joint steering committee to coordinate ethics work.
Total research funding for Chinese universities ballooned from US$7.6 billion in 2009 to US$12.7 billion in 2012, said Guangxian Li, the executive vice president of Sichuan University, who spoke at the 8 to 9 October seminar on behalf of Shen Yan, vice chairman of CAST and deputy director of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Research papers published by Chinese universities saw a 10% increase—to more than 1.1 million—during the same period.
The desire to achieve higher international standings has put enormous pressures on Chinese researchers to publish, said Li. The QS World University Rankings and Times Higher Education World University Rankings, for example, base 60 to 70% of their scores on research and citations.
But a national Chinese survey of more than 30,000 Chinese researchers found 51% of respondents admitted to frequently or occasionally improperly attributing sources, while 42% submitted manuscripts to multiple journals. Another survey of nearly 5500 graduate students from 24 universities, conducted a year later, revealed a similar trend.
An ambitious national campaign launched in 2011 by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Li said, is raising awareness of these issues. Six thousand graduate students from 60 universities have attended annual lectures on research ethics, held at the iconic Great Hall of the People, in Beijing. But education should start even earlier in a student's career, said Diange Yang, a professor in Tsinghua University's department of automotive engineering and deputy dean responsible for research work and international cooperation.
“Strengthening academic integrity education of graduate students…should be the responsibility of the whole society, and it should be done from childhood,” said Yang.
The United States is unlikely to hold national ethics lectures as has happened in China, but AAAS has joined the National Science Foundation and the Office of Research Integrity in conducting ethics education for scientists, said Mark S. Frankel, director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program. By the end of the year, AAAS will post on its website seven case studies from a 2012 workshop that address issues of authorship, conflict of interest, collaboration, and plagiarism. And Frankel, Leshner, and Yang Wei, director of China's National Natural Science Foundation, are coauthors of a chapter on Chinese and American research integrity and ethics education that will be published in the “Handbook of Academic Integrity” in 2015.
Though essential, education in responsible research conduct is not enough, said Philip Langlais, professor of psychology and former vice provost of graduate studies and research at Old Dominion University. A 2006 survey he conducted with 222 faculty and 534 graduate students in the United States found that while up to 90% of faculty reported providing training in responsible research conduct, up to 35% of students claimed they received no training. Only 8% of students and faculty reported having discussed and reached consensus on topics such as authorship, ownership, and use of data.
“We've been targeting individuals, but not other layers of influence,” Langlais said. “Scientists who have received proper training in responsible conduct of research have violated best practices and principles of scientific integrity as a result of a ‘toxic’ research environment” of higher workloads, shifting university priorities, and increasing competition for funding.
In both China and the United States, “you can't change climate and culture overnight,” he said. “But, you can make small, incremental changes.”
AAAS members elected as Fellows
In October 2014, the AAAS Council elected 401 members as Fellows of AAAS. These individuals will be recognized for their contributions to science and technology at the Fellows Forum to be held on 14 February 2015 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in San Jose, California. Presented by section affiliation, they are:
Section on Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources
Andrew F. Bent, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Douglas R. Call, Washington State Univ.
Andrew D. Hanson, Univ. of Florida
Daniel A. Herms, Ohio State Univ.
Ann M. Hirsch, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Harold Corby Kistler, USDA Agricultural Research Service
Ian H. Mather, Univ. of Maryland
Bruce A. McPheron, Ohio State Univ.
Charles Michael Smith, Kansas State Univ.
Christopher K. Tuggle, Iowa State Univ.
Diane E. Ullman, Univ. of California, Davis
Esther van der Knaap, Ohio State Univ.
Section on Anthropology
David G. Anderson, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
Robert L. Anemone, Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro
Robert G. Franciscus, Univ. of Iowa
Dale L. Hutchinson, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bertis Britt Little, Tarleton State Univ.
Dwight W. Read, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Daniel H. Sandweiss, Univ. of Maine
Pauline W. Wiessner, Univ. of Utah
Section on Astronomy
Tom Abel, Stanford Univ./Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Andreas J. Albrecht, Univ. of California, Davis
Stanislav George Djorgovski, California Institute of Technology
Martin S. Elvis, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Paul G. Kalas, Univ. of California, Berkeley/SETI Institute
Margaret Meixner, Space Telescope Science Institute/Johns Hopkins Univ.
Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences
William D. Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/Univ. of California, Berkeley
Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma
Willard S. Moore, Univ. of South Carolina
Drew T. Shindell, Duke Univ.
Frank J. Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems
Diane E. Wickland, NASA
Section on Biological Sciences
Alan A. Aderem, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Russ B. Altman, Stanford Univ.
Scott Allen Armstrong, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Bernard P. Arulanandam, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio
Alan D. Attie, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
David Mansfield Bader, Vanderbilt Univ. School of Medicine
Gregory F. Ball, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Marisa Susan Bartolomei, Univ. of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Steven A. Benner, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution
Christoph Benning, Michigan State Univ.
Aviv Bergman, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Jeffrey D. Blaustein, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
Richard Merrill Breyer, Vanderbilt Univ.
Craig Eugene Cameron, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Lon R. Cardon, GlaxoSmithKline
Douglas R. Cavener, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Aravinda Chakravarti, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine
Cheng-Ming Chuong, Univ. of Southern California
Gino A. Cortopassi, Univ. of California, Davis
Robert J. Cousins, Univ. of Florida
Richard D. Cummings, Emory Univ. School of Medicine
Stephen P. Daiger, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Ann Dean, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH
Lynn Eleanor DeLisi, VA Boston Healthcare System/Harvard Medical School
Ronald A. DePinho, Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Burton F. Dickey, Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Valerian V. Dolja, Oregon State Univ.
David C. Dorman, North Carolina State Univ.
Gregory Roland Dressler, Univ. of Michigan
Daniela Drummond-Barbosa, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Josée Dupuis, Boston Univ. School of Public Health
Geoffrey M. Duyk, Texas Pacific Group (TPG)
Irene Anne Eckstrand, National Institute of General Medical Sciences/NIH
Sean R. Eddy, HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Alan N. Engelman, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Peter J. Espenshade, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine
Rosann A. Farber, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joanna Floros, Pennsylvania State Univ. College of Medicine
Jeffrey M. Friedman, Rockefeller Univ.
Haian Fu, Emory Univ. School of Medicine
David J. Garfinkel, Univ. of Georgia
Deborah E. Goldberg, Univ. of Michigan
Margaret A. Goodell, Baylor College of Medicine
Dan Graur, Univ. of Houston
Marilyn R. Gunner, City College of New York
Marnie E. Halpern, Carnegie Institution for Science
T. Kendall Harden, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A. Wallace Hayes, Harvard Univ.
Chuan He, Univ. of Chicago
John R. Hepler, Emory Univ. School of Medicine
Oliver Hobert, Columbia Univ. Medical Center
Stefan Hohmann, Univ. of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Richard L. Hoover, Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Center
Ya-Ming Hou, Thomas Jefferson Univ.
Elizabeth Ehrhardt Howell, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
Trey Ideker, Univ. of California, San Diego
W. Gray Jerome, Vanderbilt Univ. School of Medicine
Teh-hui Kao, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Jack H. Kaplan, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
Paul Andrew Karplus, Oregon State Univ.
Tom Klaus William Kerppola, Univ. of Michigan
Shohei Koide, Univ. of Chicago
Stephen F. Konieczny, Purdue Univ.
Bruce R. Korf, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
Robert G. Kranz, Washington Univ. in St. Louis
Lee Kroos, Michigan State Univ.
David Landsman, National Center for Biotechnology Information/NIH
David H. Ledbetter, Geisinger Health System
Brendan Lee, Baylor College of Medicine
Michael J. Leibowitz, Univ. of California, Davis
Norman G. Lewis, Washington State Univ.
Erwin London, Stony Brook Univ.
Manyuan Long, Univ. of Chicago
William L. Lowe Jr., Northwestern Univ. Feinberg School of Medicine
Bruce J. MacFadden, Florida Museum of Natural History, Univ. of Florida
Nicholas Gordon Martin, Queensland Institute of Medical Research (Australia)
Andrea M. Mastro, Pennsylvania State Univ.
U. Thomas Meier, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Karen L. Mohlke, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Andrew W. Murray, Harvard Univ.
Jeffrey C. Murray, Univ. of Iowa/Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
David L. Nelson, Baylor College of Medicine
Phillip Allan Newmark, Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ian C.T. Nisbet, I.C.T. Nisbet and Company (retired)
Michael J. Oglesbee, Ohio State Univ.
Mark D. Ohman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/Univ. of California, San Diego
Ian Michael Orme, Colorado State Univ.
Mary Ann Ottinger, Univ. of Houston
Tao Pan, Univ. of Chicago
Patricia Ann Peyser, Univ. of Michigan School of Public Health
Sara C. Pryor, Cornell Univ.
B. Franklin Pugh, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Richard Anthony Rachubinski, Univ. of Alberta (Canada)
Danny F. Reinberg, New York Univ.
Daniel Martin Roberts, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
Roy Martin (Marty) Roop II, East Carolina Univ. School of Medicine
Jocelyn Kenneth Campbell Rose, Cornell Univ.
Barry Philip Rosen, Florida International Univ. Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Stanley J. Roux, Univ. of Texas at Austin
Peter A. Rubenstein, Univ. of Iowa
Paolo Sassone-Corsi, Univ. of California, Irvine
Todd A. Schlenke, Reed College
Jon Seger, Univ. of Utah
K. Krishna Sharma, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
Sanjay S. Shete, Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Robert H. Singer, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Michael Snyder, Stanford Univ.
Benjamin C. Stark, Illinois Institute of Technology
Rainer Storb, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
William S. Talbot, Stanford Univ.
Stephen E. Ullrich, Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Karen M. Vasquez, Univ. of Texas at Austin
Leslie B. Vosshall, Rockefeller Univ.
Pamela J. Weathers, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Theodore G. Wensel, Baylor College of Medicine
Mark Winey, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
Edward W. Yu, Iowa State Univ.
Section on Chemistry
Nancy L. Allbritton, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jerry L. Atwood, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
Bill J. Baker, Univ. of South Florida
Thomas Edwin Bitterwolf, Univ. of Idaho
Bruce S. Brunschwig, California Institute of Technology
Michelle V. Buchanan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jef Karel De Brabander, Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Henry C. Foley, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
Heinz M. Frei, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michael T. Green, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Brian A. Gregg, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Patrick L. Holland, Yale Univ.
Timothy F. Jamison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David M. Jonas, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
Christopher W. Jones, Georgia Institute of Technology
Silvia Sabine Jurisson, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
Christine Dolan Keating, Pennsylvania State Univ.
John Z. Larese, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
Richard Alan LeSar, Iowa State Univ.
Arumugam Manthiram, Univ. of Texas at Austin
Thomas J. Meade, Northwestern Univ.
Deane Fremont Mosher Jr., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Vincent T. Remcho, Oregon State Univ.
David Duncan Roberts, National Cancer Institute/NIH
Laurel L. Schafer, Univ. of British Columbia (Canada)
Charles Albert Schmuttenmaer, Yale Univ.
Richard R. Schrock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yang Shao-Horn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
C. David Sherrill, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mikiko Sodeoka, RIKEN (Japan)
Mark T. Spitler, U.S. Department of Energy
George G. Stanley, Louisiana State Univ.
Judith Stein, GE Global Research (Retired)
JoAnne Stubbe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lai-Xi Wang, Univ. of Maryland
Shi-Qing Wang, Univ. of Akron
Bert Weckhuysen, Utrecht Univ. (Netherlands)
David W. Wright, Vanderbilt Univ.
Jin Zhang, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine
Section on Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences
Matthew J. Doyle, The Procter & Gamble Company
Ophir David Klein, Univ. of California, San Francisco
Ann Progulske-Fox, Univ. of Florida
Section on Education
Cynthia Margaret Bauerle, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Bianca L. Bernstein, Arizona State Univ.
Elizabeth S. Boylan, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Elaine A. Johnson, Bio-Link/City College of San Francisco
David E. Lopatto, Grinnell College
Patricia A. Marsteller, Emory Univ.
David Hillyer Voorhees, Waubonsee Community College
Daniel A. Wubah, Washington and Lee Univ.
Section on Engineering
John S. Baras, Univ. of Maryland
Edward J. Berbari, Indiana Univ. Purdue Univ. Indianapolis
Roger T. Bonnecaze, Univ. of Texas at Austin
Lance R. Collins, Cornell Univ.
Placid M. Ferreira, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shekhar Garde, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Brendan A. Harley, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gilbert V. Herrera, Sandia National Laboratories
Mark C. Hersam, Northwestern Univ.
Yun Hang Hu, Michigan Technological Univ.
David A. Kofke, Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY
K. Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Joseph William Lyding, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Manos Mavrikakis, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Karen Anne Moxon, Drexel Univ.
Debbie A. Niemeier, Univ. of California, Davis
Christopher Kemper Ober, Cornell Univ.
Vilupanur A. Ravi, Cal Poly Pomona
Clinton T. Rubin, Stony Brook Univ.
Ka-Yiu San, Rice Univ.
Wolfgang M. Sigmund, Univ. of Florida
Igal Szleifer, Northwestern Univ.
George Alexander Truskey, Duke Univ.
Marjolein Christine H. van der Meulen, Cornell Univ.
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Columbia Univ.
Norman J. Wagner, Univ. of Delaware
Ge Wang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Robert K. Whitman, Univ. of Denver
Jessica O. Winter, Ohio State Univ.
Mohammed A. Zikry, North Carolina State Univ.
Section on General Interest in Science and Engineering
John Katzenberger, Aspen Global Change Institute
Mary K. Miller, Exploratorium, San Francisco
Peter N. Spotts, The Christian Science Monitor
Section on Geology and Geography
Rodey Batiza, National Science Foundation
Hilary H. Birks, Univ. of Bergen (Norway)
Steven C. Cande, Univ. of California, San Diego
Kenneth H. Coale, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Thomas Cronin, U.S. Geological Survey
Rane L. Curl, Univ. of Michigan
Samantha B. Joye, Univ. of Georgia
Michael Keller, USDA Forest Service
Kenneth P. Kodama, Lehigh Univ.
Daniel A. Lashof, Natural Resources Defense Council
David López-Carr, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Derek R. Lovley, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst
Melanie A. Mayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Nora Noffke, Old Dominion Univ.
Harry H. Roberts, Louisiana State Univ.
George D. Stanley Jr., Univ. of Montana
Brian William Stump, Southern Methodist Univ.
Thomas William Swetnam, Univ. of Arizona
James W. C. White, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
Carol M. Wicks, Louisiana State Univ.
Section on History and Philosophy of Science
Cathryn Carson, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Robert J. Malone, History of Science Society/Univ. of Notre Dame
Joseph C. Pitt, Virginia Tech
C. Kenneth Waters, Univ. of Minnesota
Section on Industrial Science and Technology
Cammy R. Abernathy, Univ. of Florida
Liyuan Liang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
J. Stephen Rottler, Sandia National Laboratories
Justin Schwartz, North Carolina State Univ.
Section on Information, Computing, and Communication
Francine Berman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Foundation
Thomas D. Garvey, SRI International
Peter D. Karp, SRI International
Madhav V. Marathe, Virginia Tech
Eric Mjolsness, Univ. of California, Irvine
Dan Roth, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William H. Sanders, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thomas L. Sterling, Indiana Univ.
Section on Linguistics and Language Sciences
Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown Univ.
Lise Menn, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
Pamela Munro, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Section on Mathematics
James M. Crowley, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Charles L. Epstein, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Nataša Jonoska, Univ. of South Florida
Kirk E. Jordan, IBM Research Division
Yuri Tschinkel, New York Univ.
Howard (Howie) Weiss, Georgia Institute of Technology
Section on Medical Sciences
Lynne V. Abruzzo, Ohio State Univ.
Naji N. Abumrad, Vanderbilt Univ. School of Medicine
Rexford S. Ahima, Univ. of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Andrew Arnold, Univ. of Connecticut School of Medicine
Linda Gwen Baum, Univ. of California, Los Angeles Geffen School of Medicine
Jeremy M. Boss, Emory Univ. School of Medicine
Myles A. Brown, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
David Michael Center, Boston Univ. Medical Center
Jeffrey S. Chamberlain, Univ. of Washington School of Medicine
Bandana Chatterjee, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Xinbin Chen, Univ. of California, Davis
Jeffrey I. Cohen, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH
Ronald B. Corley, Boston Univ. School of Medicine
Christopher M. Counter, Duke Univ. Medical Center
Jules L. Dienstag, Harvard Medical School
Mary C. Dinauer, Washington Univ. School of Medicine in St. Louis
Jeffrey M. Drazen, New England Journal of Medicine
Garth D. Ehrlich, Drexel Univ. College of Medicine
Agnes B. Fogo, Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Center
Scott Laurence Friedman, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, Stanford Univ.
Katherine Amberson Hajjar, Weill Cornell Medical College
Barbara C. Hansen, Univ. of South Florida
Christopher Charles William Hughes, Univ. of California, Irvine
Rakesh K. Jain, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Robert Gordon Kalb, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/Univ. of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Fadlo Raja Khuri, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory Univ.
Margaret Kielian, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Richard N. Kitsis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Carol Ann Kumamoto, Tufts Univ.
Stephen B. Liggett, Univ. of South Florida College of Medicine
Jay S. Loeffler, Massachusetts General Hospital
Joseph Loscalzo, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Simon Alexander Mallal, Vanderbilt Univ. School of Medicine
John Mendelsohn, Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Dennis W. Metzger, Albany Medical College
Jeffrey J. Molldrem, Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
David R. Piwnica-Worms, Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Fernando P. Polack, Vanderbilt Univ. School of Medicine
Katya Ravid, Boston Univ. School of Medicine
Barrett Jon Rollins, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Donald H. Rubin, VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System/Vanderbilt University
Nancy Hartman Ruddle, Yale Univ. School of Public Health
David J. Salant, Boston Univ. Medical Center
Erica Ollmann Saphire, Scripps Research Institute
P. Sarita Soni, Indiana Univ.
David Samuel Stephens, Emory Univ. Woodruff Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
Patrick J. Stover, Cornell Univ.
Bruce Alan Sullenger, Duke Univ. Medical Center
James Ward Thomas II, Vanderbilt Univ. School of Medicine
Kevin J. Tracey, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Jan Vijg, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Paul A. Welling, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine
Section on Neuroscience
Richard Warren Aldrich, Univ. of Texas at Austin
Silvia Arber, Univ. of Basel/Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (Switzerland)
Rita Balice-Gordon, Pfizer, Inc.
Francisco Bezanilla, Univ. of Chicago
Samuel A. Deadwyler, Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine
Daniel J. Goldman, Univ. of Michigan
David M. Holtzman, Washington Univ. in St. Louis
Christof Koch, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Alex Leo Kolodkin, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine
Michael Stephen Levine, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
David G. Morgan, Univ. of South Florida
Ronald William Oppenheim, Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine
Marina R. Picciotto, Yale Univ. School of Medicine
Jeffrey D. Schall, Vanderbilt Univ.
Masatoshi Takeichi, RIKEN (Japan)
Stephen Francis Traynelis, Emory Univ. School of Medicine
Fan Wang, Duke Univ. Medical Center
George D. Yancopoulos, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Charles Zuker, Columbia Univ.
Section on Pharmaceutical Sciences
Suresh V. Ambudkar, National Cancer Institute/NIH
Douglas A. Bayliss, Univ. of Virginia
Peter Buchwald, Univ. of Miami School of Medicine
Alice M. Clark, Univ. of Mississippi
Varsha Gandhi, Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Randy A. Hall, Emory Univ. School of Medicine
Stephen S. Hecht, Univ. of Minnesota Medical School
Sung Wan Kim, Univ. of Utah College of Pharmacy
Gary R. Matzke, Virginia Commonwealth Univ. School of Pharmacy
Section on Physics
Andrew J. Baker, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey
Robert Allen Bartynski, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey
Philip G. Collins, Univ. of California, Irvine
Priscilla B. Cushman, Univ. of Minnesota
Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) (Brazil)
Alan T. Dorsey, Univ. of Georgia
John Harte, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Mary Y.P. Hockaday, Los Alamos National Laboratory
David Larbalestier, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State Univ.
Marvin L. Marshak, Univ. of Minnesota
Roberto Daniel Merlin, Univ. of Michigan
Mark Newman, Univ. of Michigan
Harrison B. Prosper, Florida State Univ.
Bruce Arne Sherwood, North Carolina State Univ.
Milton Dean Slaughter, Florida International Univ.
Christopher Michael Sorensen, Kansas State Univ.
Nancy L. Thompson, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amir Yacoby, Harvard Univ.
Section on Psychology
John T. Bruer, James S. McDonnell Foundation
Robert S. Feldman, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Wilma Koutstaal, Univ. of Minnesota
Stanley Abraham Kuczaj II, Univ. of Southern Mississippi
Nan Bernstein Ratner, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Eric Wanner, Russell Sage Foundation
Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences
Julia Ingrid Lane, American Institutes for Research/Univ. of Strasbourg (France)/Univ. of Melbourne (Australia)
Dudley L. Poston Jr., Texas A&M Univ.
Barbara Schneider, Michigan State Univ.
Mitchel B. Wallerstein, Baruch College
Michael Joseph White, Brown Univ.
Section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering
Elizabeth A. Chornesky, Independent Analyst
T. Taylor Eighmy, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
Anthony Fainberg, Institute for Defense Analyses
Micah Daniel Lowenthal, National Academy of Sciences
Section on Statistics
Susmita Datta, Univ. of Louisville
Mark Andrew Espeland, Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine
Robert Jackson Hardy, Univ. of Texas School of Public Health
William Q. Meeker Jr., Iowa State Univ.
Paula Karen Roberson, Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
John P. Sall, SAS Institute
James J. Schlesselman, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Stephanie Shipp, Virginia Tech
Clifford Spiegelman, Texas A&M Univ.
AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award winners named
Stories exploring human biology, including our interactions with the trillions of microbes we all harbor, the influences of our fishy evolutionary forebears on how we look, and the enduring challenge of understanding cancer, are among the winners of the 2014 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.
Large Newspaper—Circulation of 100,000 or more: George Johnson, The New York Times, for “Why Everyone Seems to Have Cancer,” 5 January 2014; “A Tumor, the Embryo's Evil Twin,” 18 March 2014; and “An Apple a Day, and Other Myths,” 22 April 2014.
Small Newspaper—Circulation less than 100,000: Matthew LaPlante and Paul Christiansen, Salt Lake City Weekly, for “Devastated: The World's Largest Organism is in Utah—and It's Dying,” 21 November 2013.
Magazine: David Dobbs, Pacific Standard, for “The Social Life of Genes,” September/October 2013.
Television—Spot News/Feature Reporting (20 minutes or less): Michael Werner, KCTS 9/QUEST, for “The Ecology of Fear,” 6 March 2014.
Television—In Depth Reporting (more than 20 minutes): Michael Rosenfeld, David Dugan, and Neil Shubin, Tangled Bank Studios/Windfall Films for PBS, for “Your Inner Fish,” 9 April, 16 April, & 23 April 2014.
Radio: Rob Stein, NPR, for “Staying Healthy May Mean Learning To Love Our Microbiomes,” 22 July 2013; “From Birth, Our Microbes Become As Personal As A Fingerprint,” 9 September 2013; and “Getting Your Microbes Analyzed Raises Big Privacy Issues,” 4 November 2013.
Online: Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal, for “Trials: A Desperate Fight to Save Kids and Change Science,” 14 November 2013.
Children's Science News: Mara Grunbaum, Scholastic Science World, for “Biting Back,” 16 September 2013; “Underwater Adventurer,” 7 October 2013; and “Swallowed Up,” 3 February 2014.
The awards, administered by AAAS since their inception in 1945, go to professional journalists for distinguished reporting for a general audience. The Kavli Foundation provided a generous endowment in 2009 that ensures the future of the program.
Independent panels of science journalists pick the winners, who will receive $3000 and a plaque at the 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Jose, California, in February. Learn more at www.aaas.org/sja2014.
