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Newswise Three Virginia Tech professors have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, according to an announcement from the world's largest scientific society.

Virginia Techs total of three new Fellows leads all Virginia universities. They are among 401 scholars elected to the association in 2014.

Honored were Madhav V. Marathe, director of the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute; Joseph C. Pitt, a professor of philosophy in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences; and Stephanie Shipp, deputy director of the Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory of the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at the Virginia Tech Research Center Arlington.

The new Fellows will be given an official certificate and a gold and blue rosette pin the colors representing the disciplines of science and engineering on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015, during the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in San Jose, California.

Their names will be formally announced in the AAAS News & Notes section of the journal Science on Nov. 28.

The tradition of AAAS Fellows began in 1874. Currently, members can be considered for the rank of Fellow if nominated by the steering groups of the associations 24 sections, or by three current Fellows so long as two of them are not affiliated with the nominees institution.

Madhav V. Marathe

Marathe, a professor of computer science in the College of Engineering, was named a Fellow for contributions to high performance computing algorithms and software environments.

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AAAS Elects 3 Virginia Tech Professors as 2014 Fellows