Four University of Connecticut faculty members have been elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to its newest class of fellows. The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.

The four are:

• Emmanouil Anagnostou, the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Eversource Energy Endowed Chair in Environmental Engineering.
• Diane Lillo-Martin, a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Linguistics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
• Jeffrey McCutcheon, the General Electric Professor of Advanced Manufacturing in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering.
• Mark Adams, a professor and interim scientific director at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine and an affiliated faculty in the School of Medicine’s Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences.

Anagnostou is the founder and former director of the Eversource Energy Center and one of the applied research directors of the Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (CIRCA). Anagnostou’s research efforts focus on remote sensing of water cycle and integrating earth observations with models for improving water cycle predictability at global scale. He explores severe weather events and leveraging advanced technologies to predict the impact on communities and the natural and built environments. Anagnostou is the executive director of the UConn Tech Park and the Institute of Environment and Energy.

Lillo-Martin’s research examines how the human mind acquires spoken and sign languages, with a focus on language development in young children. She has been a member of the UConn faculty since 1986, has served multiple terms as head of the Department of Linguistics, and was named a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in 2009.

McCutcheon has pioneered work in membrane-based separations, notably in the areas of osmotic processes and membrane formation. He has served the separations community as a director of both the AIChE Separations Division the North American Membrane Society and was the deputy topic area lead for the National Alliance for Water Innovation, the Department of Energy’s “water hub” dedicated to supporting the development of desalination technology in the United States. He is currently the director of the Connecticut Center for Applied Separations Technology (CCAST), where his work focuses on membrane manufacturing and applications in the areas of liquid, gas, and ion separations.

Adams is also the interim scientific director for The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, where he leads the clinical and research genomics services that provide access to next-generation sequencing platforms for Jackson researchers and genetic testing for patients in the context of cancer and rare diseases.

The latest class of AAAS Fellows includes nearly 500 scientists, engineers, and innovators who are being recognized for their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements. A tradition dating back to 1874, election as an AAAS fellow is a lifetime honor, and all fellows are expected to maintain the highest standards of professional ethics and scientific integrity.

The AAAS is one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the journal Science, as well as Science Translational Medicine; Science Signaling; a digital, open-access journal, Science Advances; Science Immunology; and Science Robotics.

AAAS was founded in 1848 and includes more than 250 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world. The nonprofit AAAS is open to all and fulfills its mission to “advance science and serve society” through initiatives in science policy, international programs, science education, public engagement, and more.