Karen Viskupic, associate professor in the Department of Geosciences, was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
This lifetime honor recognizes Viskupic for her contributions to education. “This year’s class of fellows are the embodiment of scientific excellence and service to our communities,” said Sudip S. Parikh, the association’s CEO and executive publisher of the Science family of journals.
Viskupic joins the ranks of noted fellows such as Alondra Nelson, the Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and former deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and acting director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to go to space; Steven Chu, 1997 Nobel laureate in physics who served as the 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy; Ellen Ochoa, veteran astronaut and the Johnson Space Center’s first Hispanic and second female director in its history; Grace Hopper, pioneer in computer software development and programming language; and Vint Cerf, who co-designed the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet and received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Viskupic and other new fellows will celebrate their election to the association at a forum in Washington, D.C., on June 7, 2025.