DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

Congratulations to Prof. Fred Rasio on his election as a Fellow of the AAAS.

November 27, 2018

Prof. Fred Rasio has been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

for his pioneering work on the dynamics of dense stellar systems and the formation and evolution of

exoplanets.  Rasio is one of only six new Fellows in Astronomy; the other researchers come from

Harvard, MIT, JPL/Caltech, and the Space Telescope Institute.   A Northwestern news article is

available here and the list of new AAAS Fellows is available here.