Arvind Varma, R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor and Head, School of Chemical Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest scientific society. He was elected “for pioneering research publications in chemical reaction engineering and advanced novel materials synthesis, authorship of textbook and monographs, editorship of book series, and academic leadership.”

Along with the other new Fellows, he will be recognized for his contributions to science and technology at the Fellows Forum on February 19, 2011 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

For more details, please read the Purdue University announcement http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/faculty/2011/110120AAASFellows.html.