Faculty/Student Awards
Stony Brook Reearcher Elected To Rank Of Fellow Of AAAS

STONY BROOK, N.Y., November 28, 2006—F. James Rohlf, Ph.D., a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, has been elected to the rank of Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Rohlf, who resides in Port Jefferson, has been a member of the Stony Brook faculty since 1969.

Dr. Rohlf is being honored for his important contributions in statistical biology, particularly for developing statistical methods for classifying organisms and statistical methods for studying variation in the shapes of organisms, and for publishing several major textbooks. Rohlf will receive his award in February at the AAAS Fellows Forum in San Francisco.

Rolf was born in Blythe, Calif and was raised in San Diego. He received A.B. in zoology in 1958 from San Diego State College and his Ph.D. in entomology in 1962 from the University of Kansas.

He held prior positions at the University of California at Santa Barbara and at the University of Kansas. He also spent two years as a Visiting Scientist at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. He has been a guest professor at the University of Rome and at the University of Vienna and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

The AAAS is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. In addition to organizing membership activities, AAAS publishes the journal Science, as well as many scientific newsletters, books and reports, and spearheads programs that raise the bar of understanding for science worldwide.

Founded in 1848, AAAS serves some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of one million. The non-profit AAAS fulfills its mission to "advance science and serve society" through initiatives in science policy; international programs; and science education.

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