{"id":5674,"date":"2012-11-30T07:27:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T12:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2016-12-21T09:08:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T14:08:24","slug":"national-group-honors-ucf-professors-for-contributions-to-science-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/national-group-honors-ucf-professors-for-contributions-to-science-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"American Association for Advancement of Science honors COS professors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5685\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/11\/arlen-digs-548x365.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5685\" class=\"wp-image-5685 size-medium\" title=\"arlen-digs-548x365\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/11\/arlen-digs-548x365-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/11\/arlen-digs-548x365-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/11\/arlen-digs-548x365-299x199.jpg 299w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/11\/arlen-digs-548x365.jpg 548w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arlen Frank Chase<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The American Association for the Advancement of Science is honoring five University of Central Florida professors with specialties in everything from archaeology to engineering for their significant contributions to their perspective fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese individuals have been elevated to this rank because of their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished,\u201d according to the AAAS.<\/p>\n<p>College of Science&#8217;s recipients are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Arlen Frank Chase<\/strong>: For distinguished contributions to Maya archaeological data and theory, and to archaeological sciences, especially in remote sensing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peter Adrian Hancock<\/strong>: For distinguished contributions to engineering psychology and human factors with respect to integrative theoretical modeling in the areas of attention, workload, stress and fatigue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt is gratifying to have your scientific contributions recognized by your peers,\u201d said Chase, the chair of the anthropology department. \u201cFor Anthropology, this is one of the few truly national-level honors that is available to our discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others said they were thrilled to see so many UCF faculty members honored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very proud and honored to be named a Fellow of AAAS and to join with colleagues from UCF who are sharing in this status,\u201d said Hancock a provost distinguished research professor at the Institute of Institute for Simulation &amp; Training and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. \u201cI think it is a mark of the growing prestige of our institution that we have a \u2018class\u2019 of this size.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5783\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-12-14-at-9.49.20-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5783\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5783\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-12-14 at 9.49.20 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-12-14-at-9.49.20-AM-264x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-12-14-at-9.49.20-AM-264x300.png 264w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-12-14-at-9.49.20-AM-768x871.png 768w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-12-14-at-9.49.20-AM-299x339.png 299w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-12-14-at-9.49.20-AM.png 824w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Adrian Hancock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A total of 702 fellows were named including 28 from Florida institutions. New Fellows will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin during the 2013 AAAS annual meeting in Boston on Feb. 16.<\/p>\n<p>The tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874. Currently, members can be considered for the rank of Fellow if nominated by the steering group of their respective sections, by three Fellows, or by the association\u2019s chief executive officer. Each steering group then reviews the nominations of individuals within its respective section and forwards a final list to the AAAS Council.<\/p>\n<p>The AAAS Council votes on the final aggregate list. The council is the policymaking body of the association, chaired by the president, and consisting of the members of the board of directors, the retiring section chairs, delegates from each electorate and each regional division, and two delegates from the National Association of Academies of Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Association for the Advancement of Science is honoring five University of Central Florida professors with specialties in everything from archaeology to engineering for their significant contributions to their perspective fields. \u201cThese individuals have been elevated to this rank because of their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":5685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,3,38,13,22,28],"tags":[325,2656],"class_list":["post-5674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropology","category-awards","category-breaking-news","category-news","category-psychology-departments","category-top-news","tag-arlen-chase","tag-peter-hancock"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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