Mia K. Markey, associate professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering's Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Mia K. Markey
Mia K. Markey, associate professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering's Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
AAAS fellows are chosen annually by their peers to recognize their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. Markey is one of three faculty members at The University of Texas at Austin that has been elected an AAAS fellow. The other two are Ron Elber, professor of chemistry in the College of Natural Sciences, and William H. Press, professor of computer science and integrative biology in the College of Natural Sciences.
Markey is an Engineering Foundation Faculty Fellow in Engineering and an associate professor. She is an adjunct associate professor of imaging physics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She leads a collaborative multi-institutional research team whose mission is to design cost-effective, computational decision aids. Most recently, Markey was awarded with the 8th Annual SWHR Medtronic Prize for Scientific Contributions to Women's Health for her work in the development of decision support systems for breast cancer survivors. She has also been recognized for excellence in research and teaching with awards from organizations such as the American Medical Informatics Association, the American Society for Engineering Education, and the American Cancer Society.
Markey and her colleagues will be honored during the AAAS Fellows Forum at the 2014 AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago on Feb. 15. They join 66 previously honored AAAS fellows at The University of Texas at Austin.
The AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journals Science, Science Translational Medicine, and Science Signaling. AAAS was founded in 1848 and includes 261 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewd general science journal in the world with an estimated readership of 1 milliion. AAAS is open to all and fulfills its mission to advance science and serve society through initiatives in science policy, international programs, science education, and more.
