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Columns::May 19, 2003
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Campus News
Research professor is named Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
By Phil Williams
phil@franklin.uga.edu
Stephen P. Hubbell, Distinguished Research Professor of Plant Biology, has been named a Fellow of the prestigious American
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Stephen Hubbell
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Academy of Arts and Sciences. He joins geneticists John Avise, Norman Giles and Wyatt Anderson and anthropologist Brent Berlin as the only members from UGA.
The academy was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”
The current membership includes more than 150 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners. Drawing on the wide-ranging expertise of its membership, the American Academy conducts studies on international security, social policy, education and the humanities.
“This came as a complete surprise to me, but it’s obviously a great honor,” says Hubbell. “In some ways it’s very special since it honors accomplishments in both the sciences and humanities and recognizes a broad range of achievements. I’m especially grateful that the award specifically acknowledges my work with the National Council for Science and the Environment, which is dedicated to improving the scientific basis for environmental decision-making. I am very proud of NCSE’s accomplishments.”
Hubbell is founder and chairman of NCSE, a Washington-based non-governmental organization with more than 10,000 members and more than 200 participating universities and professional societies.
He is also an internationally known ecologist specializing in tropical rainforests and in theoretical ecology. He has published three books and more than 100 scientific papers in tropical plant ecology, plant-animal interactions and theoretical ecology.
He has received more than 60 grants from the National Science Foundation and other private foundations in support of his research. He is co-founder and board member of the Center for Tropical Forest Science, which manages a global network of large tropical forest research plots in 14 countries in Central and South America, southeast Asia and Africa. The ecology and conservation biology of about 10 percent of the world’s entire tree flora are being studied in these plots by CTFS collaborating scientists.
Hubbell is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment. He received the Distinguished Service Medal from the Society for Conservation Biology and has presented invited lectures all over the world.
Hubbell received his bachelor’s degree in biology from Carleton College and his doctoral degree from the University of California at Berkeley. His earlier positions were at Michigan, Iowa and Princeton before coming to UGA in 1999. He has also been a staff scientist, for more than two decades, for the Smithsonian Institution’s Tropical Research Institute. |
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