Vardi, Tarlov elected fellows of AAAS by peers

BY B.J. ALMOND
Rice News Staff

Two researchers at Rice University have been elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) by their peers in the world’s largest federation of scientists.

Moshe Vardi, director of Rice’s Computer and Information Technology Institute and a professor of computational engineering and computer science, was honored for his distinguished contributions to logic and the verification of computer hardware and software.

Alvin Tarlov, a senior fellow in health policy at Rice’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, was chosen for his distinguished leadership in medicine and health policy and for helping to forge stronger ties between the social sciences and biological sciences.

Members and steering groups of AAAS can nominate candidates for AAAS Fellow, an honor that recognizes efforts to advance science or foster applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished. The association’s policy-making council votes on each year’s list of new Fellows.

More than 10 million members comprise AAAS, which publishes the prestigious journal Science.