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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
9
JULY
2017
Members in the News
Congratulations to these BPS members for the awards and recognition reported here.
The following BPS members were elected to the National Academy of Sciences:
Yale Goldman
, University
of Pennsylvania and Society
member since 1980.
Leemor Joshua-Tor
, Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory
and Howard Hughes Medical
Institute and Society member
since 2007.
The following BPS members received Sloan Fellowships:
Polly Fordyce
, Stanford
University and Society
member since 2002.
Randy Stockbridge
,
University of Michigan
and Society member since
2016.
Nikta Fakhri
, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and
Society member since 2001
(not pictured).
Yan Yu
, Indiana University
and Society member since
2010.
Carol V. Robinson
, Oxford Uni-
versity and Society member since
2010, was named a Foreign As-
sociate of the National Academy
of Sciences.
Frances Separovic
, University of
Melbourne and Society member
since 1985, was awarded the
University of New South Wales
Alumni Award for Science and
Technology.
Jennifer Doudna
, University of California, Berkeley and Society member since 2015,
was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Biomedi-
cine category, along with Emmanuelle Charpentier and Francisco Martínez Mojica,
for their pioneering work with CRISPR/Cas 9 techniques.
Raghuveer Parthasarathy
, University of Oregon and Society member since 2002,
received the Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge.