SIGNIFICANT EVENTS - SCIENCE EVENTS
06/27/03
Hulet Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Already a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and
of the American Physical Society, Hulet said election to the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences is the highest honor he's received.
"I'm very happy about it. It's particularly gratifying to be recognized by
your peers." However, he noted that the achievements being recognized by the
academy were made by his group of researchers, not just by him. "I've been very
fortunate at Rice to have had incredibly talented and hard-working graduate
students and postdocs," Hulet said.
Rice University's Randy Hulet, an investigator in the Fundamental Physics program,
has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences -- one of the
highest forms of recognition a scholar can receive. Hulet, the Fayez Sarofim Professor
of Physics and Astronomy at Rice, is one of 187 new Fellows. The new inductees were
nominated and elected by members of the nation's oldest and most illustrious learned
society through a highly competitive process on the basis of contributions to their
disciplines. The academy was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John
Hancock and other scholar-patriots to cultivate art and science by honoring intellectual
achievement, leadership and creativity in all fields.
