Mukherjee named one of U-M's 2017 AAAS Fellows

Seven University of Michigan faculty members are among 396 newly elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

These scientists and engineers were chosen as AAAS Fellows by their peers for their "efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished," according to AAAS.

Bhramar Mukherjee, the John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, a professor of epidemiology and of global public health at the School of Public Health, and the associate director for cancer control and population sciences at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, was selected for exemplary contributions to Bayesian methodology for the analysis of gene-environment interactions and data generated under case-control and outcome dependent sampling mechanisms.

Founded in 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. This year's AAAS Fellows will be formally announced in Science Nov. 24 and will be honored in February at the AAAS annual meeting in Austin, Texas.