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James E. Katz Elected as Fellow of AAAS, a Top National Science Association
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SCILS News & Events
December 10, 2008
Professor James E. Katz has been elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the pre-eminent national scientific organization that recognizes scholars whose efforts are scientifically or socially distinguished.
Katz, an expert in the social and cultural aspects of mobile and personal communication technologies, is among 486 scientists nationwide to be elected to AAAS, one of the top scholarly distinctions. Katz joins 37 previous Rutgers fellows.
"This honor from one of America's most important scientific bodies is deeply gratifying to me not only because it recognizes the significance of my contributions, but also because it reflects so well on Rutgers' exciting research environment," Katz said.
He was cited for "distinguished scholarly contributions regarding the social dimensions of technology, including communications technology, and for contributions to public understanding of those dimensions."
Katz is chair of the Department of Communication at SCILS, where his title is Professor II, a rank reserved for Rutgers faculty who have achieved scholarly eminence in their discipline and fields of inquiry. Katz is also Director of the Center for Mobile Communication Studies.
Katz's career in academia and industry has been devoted to exploring the relationship among the domains of science and technology, knowledge and information, and social processes and public policy. Early in his career, Katz headed the social science research unit at Bell Communications Research. He has won numerous awards and will travel in 2009 to Italy as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Twentieth-Century Communications History. Katz is author of more than 50 refereed journal articles and numerous books including his most recent, Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies, published by MIT Press.
Katz will receive an official certificate and gold rosette pin when he joins other new inductees at the February 14 Fellows Forum at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Founded in 1848, AAAS is the world?s largest general scientific society. The association conducts programs in the areas of science policy, science education and international scientific cooperation. Its prestigious peer-reviewed journal Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 1 million.
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