Each year, the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences honors distinguished individuals through its Fellowship awards. The awardees constitute a select and prestigious community of scientists, engineers, research physicians, and others deeply concerned about science and science education. Awardees are recognized for extraordinary scientific accomplishments and service to the science community and the public. Academy peers initiate the nomination process. The Board of Directors reviews all nominees and makes its selection on the basis of the quality and extent of accomplishment and service. In 2018, the Board of Directors elected Katya Ravid, Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry, Biology and Health Sciences as the new MAS president (see Bio under Duties/Bios and By-Laws).
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List of Fellows
(past and present)
Dr. Charles Alcock Director, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Donald H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics |
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | calcock@cfa.harvard.edu Phone: 617-495-7100 |
Dr. Victor Ambros Professor |
UMass Medical School Program in Molecular Medicine |
Victor.Ambros@umassmed.edu Phone: 508-856-6380 |
Dr. Frederick Ausubel Professor |
Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Molecular Biology |
ausubel@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu Phone: 617-726-5969 |
Dr. W. A. Berggren Scientist Emeritus |
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Geology & Geophysics |
wberggren@whoi.edu Phone: 508-289-2593 |
Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia John and Dorthy Wilson Professorship |
MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program |
sbhatia@mit.edu Phone: 617-324-0221 |
Dr. David Campbell Professor |
Boston University Dept of Physics |
dkcampbe@bu.edu Phone: 617-35301948 |
Dr. Anne Carpenter Imaging Platform Director (faculty equivalent, Principal Investigator) |
Broad Institute | anne@broadinstitute.org Phone: 617-714-7750 |
Dr. Connie Chow | Science Club for Girls UMass Boston Honors College |
cchow97@gmail.com Phone: 617-513-1540 |
Dr. John Coffin Professor |
Tufts University Molecular Biology & Microbiology |
John.coffin@tufts.edu Phone: 617-636-6528 |
Dr. Carolyn Cohen (1929 – 2017) Professor Emerita |
Brandeis University Biology |
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Dr. Catherine (Cady) Coleman (COLONEL, USAF, RET.) |
NASA An American chemist, a former United States Air Force officer, and a former NASA astronaut.[1]She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on May 23, 2011, as a crew member of Expedition 27 after logging 159 days in space. |
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Connie Chow PhD, Director |
UMass Boston Branch of the STEM AP | cchow97@gmail.com |
Dr. Robert Dorit Professor |
Smith College Biological Sciences |
rdorit@smith.edu Phone: 413-585-3638 |
Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus (1930-2017) Prefessor Emerita |
MIT | MIT ‘Remembering Mildred Dresselhaus’ Link |
Claire Duggan Dir-Programs & Operations |
Northeastern University STEM |
c.duggan@northeastern.edu Phone: 617-373-2036 |
Dr. Irving Epstein Professor |
Brandeis University Dept of Chemistry |
epstein@brandeis.edu Phone: 781-736-2503 |
Dr. G. David Forney Adjunct Professor Emeritus |
MIT Dept of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science |
forneyd@comcast.net Phone: 617-868-4855 |
Dr. Lila Gierasch Distinguished Professor |
University of Massachusetts Amherst Dept Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
gierasch@biochem.umass.edu Phone: 413-545-6094 |
Dr. Walter Gilbert Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard |
BioVentures Investors Was a founder of Biogen, and served as Chairman and CEO until 1985 |
Not available |
Dr. Roy Glauber Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics |
Harvard University Dept of Physics |
Laurie_Glimcher@dcfi.harvard.edu Phone: 617-632-4266 |
Dr. Laurie Glimcher Richard and Susan Smith Professor, HMS President and CEO |
Harvard University Medicine Dana-Farber Cancer Inst |
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Dr. Jeffrey Hall Professor Emeritus |
Brandeis University Biology |
hall@brandeis.edu |
Dr. James Hamilton Professor |
Boston University Dept of Physiology and Biophysics |
jhamilt@bu.edu 617-638-5048 |
Dr. Daniel Hartl Higgins Professor of Biology |
Harvard University Dept of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology |
dhartl@oeb.harvard.edu Phone: 617-496-3357 |
Dr. Dudley Herschbach Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, Emeritus |
Harvard University Dept of Chemistry & Chemical Biology |
herschbach@chemistry.harvard.edu Phone: 617-495-3218 |
Dr. Nancy Hopkins Professor Emerita |
MIT Department of Biology |
nhopkins@MIT.EDU Phone: 617-253-6414 |
Dr. Evelyn Hu Tarr-Coyne Professor Applied Physics and of Electrical Engineering |
Harvard University Engineering and Applied Science |
ehu@seas.harvard.edu Phone: 617-496-1385 |
Dr. Joseph Italiano Professor and co-founder, Platelet Biogenesis |
Harvard Medical School Department of Medicine |
jitaliano@rics.bwh.harvard.edu |
Dr. Jonathan King Professor |
MIT Department of Biology |
jaking@MIT.EDU Phone: 617-253-4700 |
Dr. Nancy Kopell Professor |
Boston University Mathematics and Statistics |
nk@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-5210 |
Dr. Eric Lander President and Founding Director |
Broad Institute | Send message via web page |
Dr. Richard Larson Professor |
MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society |
rclarson@MIT.EDU Phone: 617-253-3604 |
Dr. Susan Leeman Professor |
Boston University Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics |
sleeman@bu.edu Phone: 617-638-4364 |
Dr. Aviva Lev-Ari Economist, Director & Founder LPBI |
Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI) Group, Boston | avivalev-ari@alum.berkeley.edu |
Dr. Susan Lindquist (1949-2016) Former Director |
MIT Whitehead Institute |
Obituary |
Dr. Eve Marder Professor |
Brandeis University Biology |
marder@brandeis.edu Phone: 781-736-3140 |
Dr. Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) |
University of Massachusetts Amherst | Nice life summary |
Ms. Sandra Mayrand Co-Director |
UMass Medical School (until 2013)
Board of Directors, Massachusetts State Science and Engineering Fair |
Could be contacted via LinkedIn |
Dr. John McCarthy Acting Provost & Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Distinguished University Professor |
University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Linguistics |
jmccarthy@linguist.umass.edu |
Dr. Craig Mello Distinguished Professor |
UMass Medical School RNA Therapeutics Institute |
Craig.Mello@umassmed.edu Phone: 508-856-1602 |
Dr. Matthew Meselson Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences |
Harvard University Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology |
msm@wjh.harvard.edu Phone: 617-495-2264 |
Dr. Ioannis Miaoulis President and Director, Boston Museum of Science |
Museum of Science | |
Dr. Mary-Lou Pardue Boris Magasanik Professor |
MIT Department of Biology |
mlpardue@MIT.EDU Phone: (617) 253-6741 |
Dr. David Pilbeam Professor |
Harvard University Department of Human Evolutionary Biology |
pilbeam@fas.harvard.edu Phone: 617-495-4736 |
Dr. Katya Ravid Professor, Center Founding Director Evans Center for IBR and BU –IBRO (MAS president; 2018-) |
Boston University Departments of Medicine, Biochemistry, Biology and Health Sciences |
kravid@bu.edu Phone: 617-3588242 |
Tom Ricardi | Live Birds of Prey | Mass Bird of Prey rehab Phone: 413-372-8867 |
Dr. Margaret (Peg) Riley Professor (MAS President thru 2017) |
University of Massachusetts Amherst Biology Massachusetts Academy of Sciences |
riley@bio.umass.edu Phone: 413-577-1306 |
Howard Ris (Bud) Ris, president & CEO until 2014 |
New England Aquarium | Could be contacted via LinkedIn |
Dr. Megan Rokop Associate Dean |
Broad Institute UMass Boston Honors College |
Megan.Rokop@umb.edu Phone: 617-287-5520 |
Dr. Mandana Sassanfar Lecturer |
MIT Department of Biology |
mandana@mit.edu Phone: 617-452-4371 |
Dr. Larisa Schelkin CEO & President & Co-Founding Director of the Diversity and Outreach in Math and Engineering (DOME) Foundation, Inc |
DOME Foundation | Also: CEO, President & Founder, Global STEM Education Ctr |
Dr. Richard Schrock F G Keyes Professor of Chemistry |
MIT Department of Chemistry |
rrs@MIT.EDU Phone: 617-253-1596 |
Dr. H. Eugene Stanley Professor |
Boston University Dept of Physics |
hes@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-2617 |
Dr. Paul Trunfio Senior Research Scientist |
Boston University Dept of Physics |
trunfio@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-9041 |
Dr. B. L. Turner Professor |
Clark University Graduate School of Geography |
bturner@clarku.edu Phone: 508-793-7325/7434 |
Dr. Bryan Vought Senior Research Scientist |
Vertex Pharmaceuticals | bwvought@gmail.com |
Dr. Ward Watt Professor |
Stanford University Biology |
wbwatt@stanford.edu |
Dr. Edward O. Wilson University Research Professor Emeritus |
Harvard University | ewilson@oeb.harvard.edu |
Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister Founding Chief Executive, resigned 2014 |
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Immediate Past President & CEOCurrent: President and CEO, Biomedical Growth Strategies LLC and Managing Partner, Biomedical Innovation Advisors LLC |
Could be contacted via LinkedIn |
Dr. Christos Zahopoulos Associate Professor |
Northeastern University CPS-Graduate Programs |
c.zahopoulos@northeastern.edu Phone: 617-373-4583 |
Dr. Maria Zuber Vice President for Research |
MIT Office of the Vice President for Research |
mtz@MIT.EDU Phone: 617-253-3206 |