At the conclusion of its annual gathering this week, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced the election of 120 new members and 24 new international members, among them UC Berkeley’s Abby Dernburg, professor of molecular and cell biology and a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
Also elected was Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a professor of materials science and mineral engineering and of physics who recently took a leave of absence to serve as executive vice president for research at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
The NAS, which provides scientific advice to the federal government and other organizations, recognizes scientists each year who have made distinguished and continuing contributions in original research.