Professor named Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science

Dr. Rongling Wu, distinguished professor of public health sciences and statistics, and director, Center for Statistical Genetics, was recently named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Rongling Wu, distinguished professor of public health sciences and statistics, and director, Center for Statistical Genetics at Penn State College of Medicine, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Wu becomes a Fellow for distinguished contributions to the field of statistical genetics, particularly inventing functional mapping to model and predict phenotypes of complex dynamic traits using genetic information.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world’s largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science. Election as a AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers. This year, 391 Fellows were selected for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. The Fellows will receive certificates and pins on Feb. 18 at the AAAS Fellow’s Forum during the 2017 AAAS Annual meeting in Boston.

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