Four UT Researchers Named 2016 AAAS Fellows
Four UT researchers are among the 2016 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Brian Wirth, Karen Hughes, and George Ostrouchov hold various positions on the UT Knoxville campus; Baohua Gu from the UT Institute of Agriculture also was selected.
Wirth, the joint UT-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair for Computational Nuclear Engineering in the Tickle College of Engineering, was chosen for his contributions to nuclear engineering. Wirth is a globally recognized expert in nuclear materials and how they behave in radioactive environments. He has received the US Department of Energy Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, given to researchers in energy research and national security, and the Mishima Award, given by the American Nuclear Society for outstanding work in nuclear fuels and materials research.