Rieseberg
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Loren Rieseberg, Distinguished Professor of biology at IU Bloomington, has added yet another honor to a flourishing list of accomplishments this year.
The plant geneticist and evolutionary biologist, known for his research using the sunflower as a model organism, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the roll of which includes the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein.
In the past year, Rieseberg has been the recipient of a $500,000 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship and the first-ever Stebbins Medal from the Vienna--based International Association for Plant Taxonomy, which he will receive later this month. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last year.
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