Thursday, March 27, 2025

Three Genetics Graduate Program faculty members have been named 2024 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general-scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

Genetics’ recipients are Robert Piper, chair and departmental executive officer of anatomy and cell biology, and professor of internal medicine and molecular physiology and biophysics in the Carver College of Medicine; Tina Tootle, chair and departmental executive officer in biology and professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and Joshua Weiner, associate dean for research and infrastructure and professor of biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and associate director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute. 

You can read more about their achievements in the featured article on Iowa Now.

Dr. Piper
Dr. Tootle
Dr. Weiner